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From: allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU/uEmacs Line Continuation
Summary: long lines in various Emacses
Message-ID: <136@axcess.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 14:12:25 GMT
References: <292@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> <3630005@wdl1.UUCP>
Organization: aXcess Company, Mentor, Ohio
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In article <3630005@wdl1.UUCP>, jcw@wdl1.UUCP (John C Williams) writes:
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| I infer from your mentioning scrolling to the right/left that your version of
| GNU lets long lines run off the screen.
| 
| How odd.  With our GNU, a l-o-n-g line results in a backslash at the right
| margin of the screen followed by the rest of the line on the "next line"
| visually.  Of course, I can change this behavior, for example, by 
| SETTING UP MY TERMINAL/KEYBOARD DIFFERENTLY.
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Let's not be so nasty about it.  I think he was talking about uEmacs anyway.

LONG LINE HANDLING IN VARIOUS EMACSES:

GNU -- signals end of physical line with backslash, displays rest of line on
	next physical line (default) OR displays only first physical line,
	signals end of physical line with $, REST OF LINE DOES NOT SCROLL.
	(How do I edit the hidden part of the line?)

uEmacs -- signals end of physcal line with $, attempting to move onto the $
	will cause the entire LINE to scroll so that the character obscured
	by the $ is in the middle of the physical line.

Jove -- like uEmacs but the signal character is ! instead.

I seem to remember that "elle" uses backslash/wrap like GNU does.

Anyway, I tend to prefer the Jove method.  Can anyone tell me how to accomplish
this in GNU Emacs, or failing that how to edit the "hidden" part of a line if
truncate-lines is t?
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