From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:56:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83li2acppz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2ja52$lm6$1@panix1.panix.com>
> From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
> Date: 3 Oct 2013 04:33:38 -0400
>
> Easy enough to read the left end, or the right end, but the
> stuff in between is just about impossible to see.
Are you talking about the situation when truncate-lines is non-nil?
If not, then what is the problem to read the whole line?
If this is for truncate-lines non-nil, then just move across the line
with cursor motion commands: once you get too close to the right
margin, Emacs will scroll the line horizontally to bring the next
portion into view.
> One place you get these super-wide lines is when copying
> and pasting a series of amazon reviews into an emacs
> buffer. Each paragraph in a review pastes (yanks) in
> as one *WIDE* line.
>
> And to save vertical space on the screen, you do NOT
> want to M-q (fill) the thing.
What about "M-x visual-line-mode RET"? Does it do what you want?
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2013-10-03 8:33 How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars? David Combs
2013-10-03 9:33 ` Damien Wyart
2013-10-03 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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