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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

>> I find longlines-mode very usefull. But sometimes I only want to use
>> it on part of a buffer. Is this possible, or do I want to much?
>
> You can temporarily narrow the buffer to a smaller region, enable
> `longlines-mode' temporarily, do some editing, disable `longlines-mode'
> when you are done, and widen the buffer to its full size again.

That is a hack that could work reasonable, but is not really what I
want. See my response to the message of Tomas.