Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmc-cs!harlqn!jcgs From: jcgs@wundt.harlqn.uucp (John Sturdy) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Need to be able to look at columns > 80. Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 89 08:22:16 GMT References: <1096@zehntel.UUCP> Sender: news@harlqn.UUCP Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, England Lines: 27 In-reply-to: larryg@zehntel's message of 24 Aug 89 16:55:23 GMT Larry> I need to be able to view and edit columns beyond 80 on an Larry> 80-column terminal. Does Emacs have this capability? I'd like Larry> to be able to shift horizontally to the right an indefinite Larry> number of columns, so I was looking at columns 41 through 120, Larry> say, or 81 through 160, 161 - 240, etc. This reply is for GNUemacs only, but I'd be surprised if others don't have something similar. Try C-x < and C-x > (aka M-x scroll-left and M-x scroll-right). These are controlled by the variables truncate-lines and truncate-partial-width-windows. (The alternative is that emacs will wrap long lines on the screen for you.) Larry> Now, I have heard that Emacs can do anything. Just a small matter of programming. (In GNU, anyway.) -- __John When asked to attend a court case, Father Moses took with him a leaking jug of water. Asked about it, he said: "You ask me to judge the faults of another, while mine run out like water behind me." jcgs@uk.co.harlqn (UK notation) jcgs@harlqn.co.uk (most places) ...!mcvax!ukc!harlqn!jcgs (uucp - really has more stages, but ukc knows us) John Sturdy Telephone +44-223-872522 Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambridge, UK