Hi,
I think I explained my problem badly.
My problem is that although my buffer occupies all the emacs window, the
lines don't wrap at the windows edge. They wrap quite a distance before (at
about half the window). Is there a solution to this?
Thank you very much for your patience

On 9/6/09, Suvayu Ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com<fatkasuvayu%2Blinux@gmail.com>>
wrote:
>
> On Sunday 06 September 2009 11:45 AM, bar tomas wrote:
>
>> On 9/6/09, Suvayu Ali
>> <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com <fatkasuvayu%2Blinux@gmail.com><
>> fatkasuvayu%2Blinux@gmail.com <fatkasuvayu%252Blinux@gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday 06 September 2009 09:34 AM, bar tomas wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>> How can I set the option "wrap line at edge of window" in the .emacs
>>>> init
>>>> file?
>>>> Also, I'd like to disable truncate long lines. Although I have disabled
>>>> this
>>>> option through the menu/Options, lines continue to be truncated befor
>>>> the
>>>> windows edge. How can I stop truncation of long lines?
>>>> Thanks very much
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  How about put this in your .emacs
>>> (custom-set-variables
>>>        (...other customizations ...)
>>>        '(truncate-lines nil))
>>>
>>>  Thanks very much.
>> Does that also make the text wrap around the window?
>>
>>
> From the documentation after doing,
> `C-h v truncate-lines <RET>'
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> truncate-lines is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is t
>
>  Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
>  This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
>  satisfies the predicate `booleanp'.
>
> Documentation:
> *Non-nil means do not display continuation lines.
> Instead, give each line of text just one screen line.
>
> Note that this is overridden by the variable
> `truncate-partial-width-windows' if that variable is non-nil
> and this buffer is not full-frame width.
>
> You can customize this variable.
>
> --
> Suvayu
>
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.
>