From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How to read, in pieces, across a very wide line, eg 432 chars? Date: 3 Oct 2013 04:33:38 -0400 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380789318 28131 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2013 08:35:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:35:18 +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 10:35:23 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 1VReNR-0003BY-55 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VReNQ-0005Zk-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Oct 2013 04:35:16 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1380789218 23457 166.84.1.1 (3 Oct 2013 08:33:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 08:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201538 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:93808 Archived-At: Easy enough to read the left end, or the right end, but the stuff in between is just about impossible to see. So, how to sort of "tab" your way across it? (Maybe that's the answer: redefine tab to be 120 chars, and indeed tab across. But how to back up "two tabs" to again see that already viewed part of the line? 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. In fact, you might have to successive paragraphs, each existing within an emacs buffer as a super-wide string, almost identical strings (obviously a contrived situation), and you want to "tab across" the WHOLE BUFFER, so you can look at corresponding parts of two WIDE lines. 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). Ideas? Thanks, David