tale@its.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/16/89)
I think that on some occasions it would be nice to have a buffer-local
variable that would behave like truncate-lines but not quite. This
happens with a couple of interactive processes and while reading
USENET news in GNUS ... some people are inclined to make lines of
exactly eighty characters long, LFD not included. I don't want the
lines truncated; I just don't want them wrapped if they could be
displayed on one screen line; the invisible LFD doesn't concern me
when reading things.
I realize this is something that needs to be changed in the C source
if it were to be added at all so I'm not making some sort of random
call for help. I was just curious if anyone else desired such
behaviour occasionally and should we push it as a suggestion for a
future change.
Dave
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tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@rpitsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edugildea@BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea) (02/17/89)
Date: 16 Feb 89 05:15:59 GMT
From: David C Lawrence <tale@its.rpi.edu>
I think that on some occasions it would be nice to have a buffer-local
variable that would behave like truncate-lines but not quite. This
happens with a couple of interactive processes and while reading
USENET news in GNUS ... some people are inclined to make lines of
exactly eighty characters long, LFD not included. I don't want the
lines truncated; I just don't want them wrapped if they could be
displayed on one screen line
A simple solution that works fairly well (but not perfectly) is to
evaluate (set-screen-width 81 t) and then turn off auto wrap on your
terminal.
< Stephen