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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:33:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <524d39ef$0$2302$426a34cc@news.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: l2ja52$lm6$1@panix1.panix.com

* dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) in gnu.emacs.help:
> So, I'd like to march across the line, or sometimes the entire screen
> of such lines, in maybe 80-wide pieces if in a 90-wide window (so each
> piece has some overlap at its start and end).

You might define in elisp a few simple commands going by several chars
or words at once (using forward-char, forward-word and so on), but maybe
a simpler solution is to use the (relatively) recent additions of Emacs
to simplify working with long lines: long line mode and visual line
mode.

More details here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LongLines
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/VisualLineMode
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LineWrap

-- 
DW


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-03  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-03  8:33 How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars? David Combs
2013-10-03  9:33 ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2013-10-03 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii

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