mcgrath%paris.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath) (03/21/89)
If a line has exactly as many chars as the window (like 80), Emacs will continue it with a backslash, so you end up with 79 chars, a backslash, and one char on the next line, when without the backslash, it would all fit on one line.
jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) (03/22/89)
In article <8903202038.AA03192@paris.Berkeley.EDU>, mcgrath%paris (Roland McGrath) writes: >If a line has exactly as many chars as the window (like 80), >Emacs will continue it with a backslash, so you end up with >79 chars, a backslash, and one char on the next line, when >without the backslash, it would all fit on one line. Which is all well and good until you have to put the cursor at the non-character in position 81 on the line. I don't consider this a bug. You could optimize to only break the 80-char lines when the cursor is at column 81 (not likely, right?). It would mean that cursor-motion might cause redisplay, though, which opens another can of dogs. -- /jr jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr C'mon big money!