RE: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?

[<brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn>]

Thanks Amy! longlines-mode is exactly what I need. And I configure 'longlines-wrap-follows-window-size' to 't'.

"In Long Lines mode, long lines are wrapped if they extend beyond
`fill-column'.  The soft newlines used for line wrapping will not
show up when the text is yanked or saved to disk."

Regards,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+brianjiang=gdnt.com.cn@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+brianjiang=gdnt.com.cn@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Amy Templeton
Sent: 2007年7月4日 0:01
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Emacs have a horizontal scroll bar?

<brianjiang@gdnt.com.cn> wrote:
> Also, I think "Truncate long lines in this buffer" is good enough too. 
> It is not "word wrap". It truncate the words at any position (e.g., 
> "words" can be truncate to "wo" in current line and "ords"
> in the next line.) It is really make the text difficult to read.
> Any solution for this? (auto-fill can wrap the text in a word basis, 
> but 1). It doesn't wrap the word based on the window width, 2). It 
> will modify the file while we don't want to change
> anything.)

There's a mode called longlines-mode you might like. You seem to be working with files that for some reason can't be wrapped, which in and of itself tends to make things difficult. What this mode does is to change the *appearance* of the buffer such that long lines are wrapped at the fill-column, but in actuality it takes an actual newline (<RET>) to finish a line when the actual file is saved. I'd suggest checking it out (M-x longlines-mode <RET>).

Amy

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