From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "HS" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to re-bound a long line Date: 1 Feb 2007 11:37:33 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1170358653.075944.194650@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> References: <1170353853.201265.192940@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1170355339.031537.133340@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170358902 866 80.91.229.12 (1 Feb 2007 19:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:41:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 01 20:41:35 2007 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 1HChoN-0001W3-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:41:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HChoM-000671-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:41:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.213.54.31 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1170358658 26795 127.0.0.1 (1 Feb 2007 19:37:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:37:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 fw.datacom-telematica.com.br:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=200.213.54.31; posting-account=pG57fA0AAADtQ-4h1MyvjXjZpSNZC0zj Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145226 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:40832 Archived-At: On 1 fev, 15:59, Joost Kremers wrote: > Vols wrote: > > In my code, I have one line which is very long, for example, this line > > has 500 words. Emacs only shows 100 words on one screen and I have to > > move the cursor back to see all the other 400 words. I want emacs to > > show all the 500 words in one screen. > > auot-fill-mode looks not working. > > i reckon there are no spaces in that line? > > try (setq truncate-lines nil). > > C-h v truncate-lines RET for more details. > > -- > Joost Kremers joostkrem...@yahoo.com > Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht > EN:SiS(9) If you want to actually insert newlines into your text, use fill- paragraph (or auto-fill). If you just want to see the lines then "> try (setq truncate-lines nil)". This will make long lines span over several "screen lines", accordingly to screen width.. cheers, hs