From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars? Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:56:56 +0300 Message-ID: <83li2acppz.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380815864 22984 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 15:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 15:57:44 +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 17:57:47 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 1VRlHc-0001Z9-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:57:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRlHb-0004xc-O6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:57:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRlHI-0004vP-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRlHB-0008NN-Nt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58958) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VRlHB-0008N1-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MU300200OAGSR00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:57:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MU30029LOBAS020@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 18:57:10 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:93815 Archived-At: > From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) > Date: 3 Oct 2013 04:33:38 -0400 > > Easy enough to read the left end, or the right end, but the > stuff in between is just about impossible to see. Are you talking about the situation when truncate-lines is non-nil? If not, then what is the problem to read the whole line? If this is for truncate-lines non-nil, then just move across the line with cursor motion commands: once you get too close to the right margin, Emacs will scroll the line horizontally to bring the next portion into view. > One place you get these super-wide lines is when copying > and pasting a series of amazon reviews into an emacs > buffer. Each paragraph in a review pastes (yanks) in > as one *WIDE* line. > > And to save vertical space on the screen, you do NOT > want to M-q (fill) the thing. What about "M-x visual-line-mode RET"? Does it do what you want?