[comp.emacs] Line Wrapper for Slow Terminals

eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (04/10/89)

I find it very annoying to sit and watch the screen being redrawn when a line
becomes too long, and even more annoying when the line became too long because 
of a typo that added an extra character. What I would like to see is a line
wrapper that scrolls the line horizontally, keeping the point at the end of 
the line, and moving the excessive characters off the screen. I would then want 
to use electric fill to make the whole thing come into view when I explicitly
called for it. As I see it, all this means is that a window has been defined
with very large horizontal size, and a mode to display only those characters
that appear within a box defined over that window that was in fact as big as
my screen. I would then need a few functions that translated a specific line 
left or right within this box.

Does anyone have such a thing around?