From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:16:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hfd4s7$gs5$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d791b8790912032151m65b58f06j1a40a2ccaef45763@mail.gmail.com>
Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe you could set the display text property on each line (starting
>> just before the right margin), to emulate truncate-lines.
>
> Nope, text from the 'display' property text still wraps. Also, you
> can't navigate through it with the point. :(
I meant, if you want the buffer text truncated at column N, set the display
property at column N - 1 through the rest of the line to a single character
(e.g. U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS or U+22EF MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS) to
indicate truncation.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-05 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-03 3:03 Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis Matthew Dempsky
2009-12-03 23:22 ` Matthew Dempsky
2009-12-04 4:23 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-12-04 5:51 ` Matthew Dempsky
2009-12-04 9:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-05 8:16 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2009-12-05 8:24 ` Matthew Dempsky
[not found] ` <mailman.12260.1260000999.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-05 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-12-04 6:11 ` tomas
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