From: pascaldamian@icqmail.com (Pascal Damian)
Subject: Re: chop long lines?
Date: 20 Sep 2004 08:31:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6bd4a4d3.0409200731.3a9dbf9c@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 873c1dl26q.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com
Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message news:<873c1dl26q.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>...
> > How to make emacs behave like "less -S", i.e. don't wrap long text
> > lines at all but allow us to do horizontal scrolling. I want 1 text
> > line to always appear as 1 screen line, no matter how long the text
> > line is. Most editors I've known (except vi) behave like this.
> >
> > I've tried screen-lines.el, which is nice and which I will use, but it
> > doesn't do the above.
>
> Another ill named emacs function: M-x toggle-truncate-lines RET
Ah, thanks. You made my day. I've tried emacs for only two days now,
and that was my biggest emacs annoyance.
--
Pascal Damian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 3:30 chop long lines? Pascal Damian
2004-09-20 4:06 ` Kin Cho
2004-09-20 9:28 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-20 15:31 ` Pascal Damian [this message]
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