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From: bpowell@osc.edu (Brian Powell)
Subject: Re: How do you edit a file with *very* long lines
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In article <187@armltd.uucp>, jbiggs@armltd.uucp (John Biggs) writes:
> Does any one out there know a good way to edit a file
> with long (>255) lines without them wrapping?
> 
> I use a SPARC station2 with Open Windows and ideally
> what I would like is something like textedit with a
> horizontal scroll bar, so that I can have a *real*
> window on my file which can be scrolled both horizontally
> and vertically. I have tried the clip lines in textedit
> but there still seems to be hard limit on the maximum width
> and it is quite hard to move horizontally.
> 
> advTHANKSance
> 
> --John (jbiggs@armltd.co.uk)

GNU Emacs can edit your file.  You can set the variable "truncate-lines" to
"t" and use the "scroll-left" and "scroll-right" commands to move horizontally
in your text.  Heck, if you compile/run emacs under X (xemacs), you could even
bind "scroll-left" and "scroll-right" to mouse operations so that you would
not have to use the keyboard to do horizontal scrolling.  BTW, emacs supports
lines of *any* length, you can even edit binary files with it...


-- Brian

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