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: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:16:06 -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 1260001030 17392 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2009 08:17:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 08:17:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 05 09:17:03 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 1NGpp7-0002xd-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:17:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGpp7-0001J3-JG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:17:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGpok-0001Hf-5i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:16:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGpof-0001Cj-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:16:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34875 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGpof-0001Cd-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54170) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGpof-0001tS-2Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NGpoc-0002qp-64 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:16:30 +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 ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:16:30 +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 ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:16:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 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:70427 Archived-At: Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Rodgers 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