From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:33:34 +0200 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <524d39ef$0$2302$426a34cc@news.free.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380792915 2937 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 09:35:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 09:35:15 +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 Oct 03 11:35:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VRfJY-0004XD-Nj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41822 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRfJY-0002Al-0D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 05:35:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.189.137 with SMTP id gi9mr759911wic.1.1380792816224; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!g3no6319996wic.0!news-out.google.com!bb9ni26000wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!212.27.60.64.MISMATCH!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp6-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 03 Oct 2013 11:33:35 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1380792815 news-4.free.fr 2302 213.41.244.197:55580 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201540 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93810 Archived-At: * 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