Re: Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> 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