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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: furue@hawaii.edu
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to enable wrapping after C-x 3
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:39:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5CE2C148-C754-4DE5-A0D1-4B24C10A8E0F@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185777974.728077.99100@g12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>


Am 30.07.2007 um 08:46 schrieb furue@hawaii.edu:

> (The documentation
> of truncate-lines says it's overriden by truncate-partial-
> width-windows.  I don't know how these two variables
> are meant to work together.)

I think this has historical reason. In GNU Emacsen 18 and 19 truncate- 
lines worked, AFAIR. Then GNU Emacs learned to split a frame into  
windows and finally a new concept was created which also introduced  
truncate-partial-width-windows. This sets a new general clipping  
default for all buffers, as truncate-lines did before. Now it's a  
buffer local variable, i.e. it only applies when set inside a  
particular buffer *and* then only when the user is deviating from the  
clipping default. So truncate-lines now can be set to truncate lines  
in some buffers in spite of the general user setting.

--
Greetings

   Pete

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something  
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete  
fools.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-30 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27 19:37 How to enable wrapping after C-x 3 ryofurue
2007-07-27 21:20 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.4070.1185571255.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-30  6:46   ` furue
2007-07-30 10:39     ` Peter Dyballa [this message]

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