From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:23:56 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259900673 25073 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2009 04:24:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:24:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 05:24:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NGPiU-0005bl-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:24:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGPiT-0002K4-O6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGPi6-0002Ht-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGPi1-00029c-W3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:24:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45051 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGPi1-00029N-OI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41869) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGPi1-0004Hy-BV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGPhx-0005UT-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:23:53 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:23:53 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:23:53 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70371 Archived-At: Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >> Is there currently a way to selectively enable truncation on certain >> lines, but leave it disabled on others? > > Looking at xdisp.c, it looks like there's no elisp solution to setting > line_wrap == TRUNCATION on a per-line basis, and even if there was, it > looks like more of the display algorithm would need reworking to > support it. Maybe you could set the display text property on each line (starting just before the right margin), to emulate truncate-lines. If that works, you might be able to set the property via font-lock. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA