From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:05:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviqclnsy1.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12260.1260000999.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>> 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.
That can sadly be a lot more tricky that you'd like (even without
getting into proportional fonts, you have the problem of fixed-width
fonts but with varying facs giving varying font-sizes, or TABs, or \NNN
escape sequences, or images, or ...).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-05 19:05 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
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 [this message]
2009-12-04 6:11 ` tomas
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