From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pascaldamian@icqmail.com (Pascal Damian) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: chop long lines? Date: 20 Sep 2004 08:31:00 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6bd4a4d3.0409200731.3a9dbf9c@posting.google.com> References: <6bd4a4d3.0409191930.4570659b@posting.google.com> <873c1dl26q.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095694469 23210 80.91.229.6 (20 Sep 2004 15:34:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:34:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 20 17:34:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C9QB8-0006I2-00 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:34:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C9QH1-0001YJ-CF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:40:15 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.94.126.209 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1095694261 15492 127.0.0.1 (20 Sep 2004 15:31:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:31:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125419 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20775 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20775 Pascal Bourguignon 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