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From: nate@hobbes.intel.com (Nate Hess)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: truncation vs wrapping
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Date: 2 Aug 89 16:05:02 GMT
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In article , marks@stewart (Mitchell Marks) writes:
>What determines whether lines longer than the window width will wrap
>onto the next display line (with a \) or will truncate at the right
>end (marked by $)?  I see the latter behavior only in the case of
>side-by-side split windows.  What I'd like to be able to do is
>sometimes get wrapped display even in those split windows. (Or,
>rarely, maybe sometimes get truncation even in regular windows.)

>Might this be something as nice and simple as a buffer local variable?

But it already is!

The way you would find this out would be to do something like

	M-x apropos RET trunc RET

which would produce something like:


---------------------------------------- *Help* --------------------
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.
vm-truncate-string	      
---------------------------------------- *Help* --------------------


and you would then probably notice those two variables, truncate-lines
and default-truncate-lines.

Happy Editing!
--woodstock
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