ugnick@sunybcs.uucp (Nick Triantos) (03/06/89)
I'm rather used to using (please, no flames) EVE on VMS. I've finally started using Emacs (GNU Version 18.53 on an Encore Multimax running Umax), but I greatly miss one of the features of EVE. Is there a way to force Emacs to truncate a line when it approaches the right column instead of just letting it continue on and put a "\" on the screen. In EVE, when the right margin is hit while typing, EVE backtraces the line for a word break and inserts a <Ret> before the word which wraps past the right margin. Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated... ___ ___ _________ /_ /| /_ /| /_______ /| Nick B Triantos |##| | |##| | |########| | |##| | |##| | |##| L|##| | The University of Buffalo |##| | |##| | |##|/_|##| /| Department of Computer Science |##| | |##| | |#########| | |##| |_|##| | |##| L_|##| | internet: ugnick@cs.buffalo.edu |##|/__|##| | |##|/__|##| | bitnet: ugnick@sunybcs.BITNET |#########|/ |#########|/ uucp: ..!{boulder,decvax,rutgers}!sunybcs!ugnick
ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (03/06/89)
In most modes do: M-x auto-fill-mode Works just the way you want (default breaks lines at 70 chars). You can change this value with the 'C-x f' command. For example, to set the width to 40 chars, you would say: C-u 40 C-x f (I assume that you already know that C-u is the way to give a numerical argument to a GNUEmacs command). ...ken seefried iii ken@gatech.edu
mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (03/07/89)
Emacs: GNU >18.50 In article <18082@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes: > >In most modes do: > > M-x auto-fill-mode [...] > For example, to set >the width to 40 chars, you would say: > > C-u 40 C-x f And to enable auto-fill-mode permanently, create a file named ".emacs" in your home directory if you don't already have one, and put the following kinds of things in it: To make GNU Emacs use text-mode instead of fundamental mode, as its default: (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) To automagically turn on auto-fill-mode, whenever text-mode is entered: (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) To change fill-mode's line width to something other than the default: (setq-default fill-column 72) For more info, see the section on Init Files in the GNU manual. -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); "I feel like an alien. It's a problem." -DB MESARD@BBN.COM BBN, Cambridge, MA
brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) (03/07/89)
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). Actually I wouldn't want to enter text this way, but it would be nice sometimes to have the lines truncated when pulling in an existing file, especially where every line is >80 characters. James -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Brister brister@td2cad.intel.com (408) 765-9713 ...!decwrl!td2cad!brister "Is the set of all respectable sets respectable?"
ugwiles@cs.buffalo.edu (Dale Wiles) (03/08/89)
In article <BRISTER.89Mar6203142@andrea.td2cad.intel.com>, brister@td2cad (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? > Yup. Just M-x set-variable truncate-lines t Set it back to nill to turn it off. For more help do C-h v truncate-lines. *Emacs came, Dale, lad, Emacs came. *(c) Marty Storer, Goog Inc. *Disclaimer: I disclaim nothing! I am THE official*Looks more (bonk) *opinion of my college, state, country and of all *like a sick-e-more (bonk) *carbon based life forms in the universe. *to me. Yogi the Space Bear.
pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) (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). Actually I wouldn't want to enter text this way, but it would be > nice sometimes to have the lines truncated when pulling in an existing > file, especially where every line is >80 characters. M-x apropos truncate gives me: default-truncate-lines Variable: Default truncate-lines for buffers that do not override it. truncate-lines Variable: *Non-nil means do not display continuation lines; truncate-partial-width-windows Variable: *Non-nil means truncate lines in all windows less than full screen wide. -Israel Pinkas -- -------------------------------------- Disclaimer: The above are my personal opinions, and in no way represent the opinions of Intel Corporation. In no way should the above be taken to be a statement of Intel. UUCP: {amdcad,decwrl,hplabs,oliveb,pur-ee,qantel}!intelca!mipos3!cadev4!pinkas ARPA: pinkas%cadev4.intel.com@relay.cs.net CSNET: pinkas@cadev4.intel.com