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From: wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William E. Sommerfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU/uEmacs Line Continuation
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Date: 18 Jan 88 15:01:06 GMT
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In article <136@axcess.UUCP> allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Anyway, I tend to prefer the Jove method [for editing the `long'
>part of a line].  Can anyone tell me how to accomplish
>this in GNU Emacs

As far as I know, there's no support for this.

>or failing that how to edit the "hidden" part of a line if
>truncate-lines is t?

C-x < shifts the entire SCREEN over by (prefix-argument) characters
(actually, the characters move left and the screen stays in the same
place... it would be quite a trick if Emacs could get the _screen_ to move
and the characters to stay put..); this defaults to the screen width.
If you want to shift by, say, 10 characters, you type C-u 1 0 C-x <.
C-x > shifts the other way; as usual, negative prefix arguments mean
``go the other way''.

As always, this is even documented in the manual, which is online in
`Info' form...  (Look under "displaying" in the top level menu).

					- Bill