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From: Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com>
Subject: Re: chop long lines?
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:06:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7iekkx60tj.fsf@neoscale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6bd4a4d3.0409191930.4570659b@posting.google.com

longlines.el works well for me.

-kin

;;; longlines.el --- automatically wrap long lines -*- coding: iso-8859-1; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 by Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Kai Grossjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
;;         Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>

pascaldamian@icqmail.com (Pascal Damian) writes:

> 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.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Pascal Damian

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-20  4:06 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 [this message]
2004-09-20  9:28 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-09-20 15:31   ` Pascal Damian

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