weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) (03/08/89)
In article <BRISTER.89Mar6203142@andrea.td2cad.intel.com> brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) writes:
Can it be arranged to have GNU-EMACS truncate the line (with possibly a
trailing character to indicate this), but not wrap it when auto-fill is
off? (i.e. you type the characters and the cursor stays glued to the right
margin).
The simple answer is yes. Executing the following lisp form (M-ESC)
does this for the current buffer:
(setq truncate-lines t)
To obtain this answer, I used the the Info online GNU Emacs manual,
searched within the Concept Index, found 'truncation', and found this
explicitly documented. People need to learn to use the online help or
to buy printed GNU Emacs manuals (help support the FSF). Otherwise,
as GNU Emacs use spreads, this group will be flooded with simple
questions that are better answered by a manual than a newsgroup.
Please try to help yourself and to then ask for help if necessary.
Everyone is better served in this manner. Thanks.
Bob
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(407) 738-2087templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) (03/08/89)
I agree that this list will sooner or later be flooded with this type of stuff: > People need to learn to use the online help or >to buy printed GNU Emacs manuals (help support the FSF). Otherwise, >as GNU Emacs use spreads, this group will be flooded with simple >questions that are better answered by a manual than a newsgroup. I belonged to a Macintosh mailing list that was like this once. This is why I think the idea that someone (I don't remember who) had a few days ago is good - namely fix it so that the first message a new subscriber to comp.emacs sees is some kind of general info. For instance, what I needed to know was: 1 - where to get a manual 2 - how are the different emacs flavors different 3 - is there online help? (no man pages, which is where everybody tells new people to look) 4 - does is run on VMS? On the Mac? on the (insert favorite machine here.) These are the kind of zeroth-order things one has to know before doing pretty much ANYTHING (well, not the different machine stuff i guess) with emacs. You can't learn to use the online help if you don't know it exists. Maybe another thing that could go in the posting is the net etiquette: "Make SURE you specify WHICH KIND OF EMACS you are using when you post questions." Oh yeah, I am using GNU emacs to send this message. Thanks to all who helped. I am in the process of getting it set up on our VMS system and have already TeXed and printed the manual. I did want to point out a few errors that occured while TeXing: (ouput from EMACS.LIS TeX output listing): [212] [213] Chapter 28 [214] [215] WARNING: Cross-reference "Variable Index-snt" used but not yet defined WARNING: Cross-reference "Variable Index-pg" used but not yet defined [216] [217] [218] [219] [220] [221] [222] [223] [224] [225] [226] [227] [228] ... (SYS$USER3:[SCRATCH.EMACS.MAN]EMACS.FNS;1 [277] [278] [279] [280] [281]) (Variable Index) Overfull \vbox (18.69067pt too high) has occurred while \output is active \vbox(643.20255+0.0)x469.75499 .\glue(\topskip) 0.0 .\hbox(660.14322+1.75)x469.75499, glue set 20.23552fil ..\vbox(660.14322+1.75)x224.75974 ...\glue(\topskip) 37.89322 ...\hbox(6.25+1.75)x224.75974, glue set 117.71956filll [] ...\glue(\parskip) 0.0 ...\glue(\baselineskip) 6.0 ...\hbox(6.25+0.0)x224.75974, glue set 158.5737filll [] ...etc. ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil ..\vbox(660.14322+1.75)x224.75974 ...\glue(\splittopskip) 37.89322 ...\hbox(6.25+1.75)x224.75974, glue set 155.95287filll [] ...\glue(\parskip) 0.0 ...\glue(\baselineskip) 6.45001 ...\hbox(5.79999+1.75)x224.75974, glue set 133.03343filll [] ...etc. .\penalty 10000 .\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fill [282] (SYS$USER3:[SCRATCH.EMACS.MAN]EMACS.VRS;1 [283] [284]) (Concept Index) ... I should point out that I had to rename all the computer modern (cmXXX) fonts in texinfo.tex to amXXX fonts since we have them instead. jeff