* How to enable wrapping after C-x 3
@ 2007-07-27 19:37 ryofurue
2007-07-27 21:20 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: ryofurue @ 2007-07-27 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi emacs users,
I couldn't find this in the info or on the Internet. By default,
long lines are wrapped and a tiny bent arrow is shown on
the right margin. But, when you split the window by C-x 3
to have two windows side-by-side, long lines aren't wrapped.
Instead, tiny straight arrows are shown on the right margin,
and when you move the pointer (cursor) righward out of the
displayed region, the text scrolls horizontally. How do you
have the original wrapping behavior in split windows?
How do you switch back and forth between the two
behaviors? I use emacs 22.1 on the testing distribution
of Debian GNU/Linux.
Regards,
Ryo
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* Re: How to enable wrapping after C-x 3
2007-07-27 19:37 How to enable wrapping after C-x 3 ryofurue
@ 2007-07-27 21:20 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2007-07-27 21:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ryofurue; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 27.07.2007 um 21:37 schrieb ryofurue:
> Instead, tiny straight arrows are shown on the right margin,
> and when you move the pointer (cursor) righward out of the
> displayed region, the text scrolls horizontally.
Could be the variables truncate-lines and truncate-partial-width-
windows can help.
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Greetings
Pete
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* Re: How to enable wrapping after C-x 3
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@ 2007-07-30 6:46 ` furue
2007-07-30 10:39 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: furue @ 2007-07-30 6:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Jul 27, 11:20 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
[. . .]
> Could be the variables truncate-lines and truncate-partial-width-
> windows can help.
Thank you for your help. Indeed, truncate-partial-width-
windows did the trick. It's t by default and that means
"truncate lines in all windows less than full frame wide"
(from the describe-variable help). When I set it to nil,
lines are wrapped in split windows. (The documentation
of truncate-lines says it's overriden by truncate-partial-
width-windows. I don't know how these two variables
are meant to work together.)
Regards,
Ryo
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* Re: How to enable wrapping after C-x 3
2007-07-30 6:46 ` furue
@ 2007-07-30 10:39 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2007-07-30 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: furue; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 30.07.2007 um 08:46 schrieb furue@hawaii.edu:
> (The documentation
> of truncate-lines says it's overriden by truncate-partial-
> width-windows. I don't know how these two variables
> are meant to work together.)
I think this has historical reason. In GNU Emacsen 18 and 19 truncate-
lines worked, AFAIR. Then GNU Emacs learned to split a frame into
windows and finally a new concept was created which also introduced
truncate-partial-width-windows. This sets a new general clipping
default for all buffers, as truncate-lines did before. Now it's a
buffer local variable, i.e. it only applies when set inside a
particular buffer *and* then only when the user is deviating from the
clipping default. So truncate-lines now can be set to truncate lines
in some buffers in spite of the general user setting.
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Greetings
Pete
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completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools.
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