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From: rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU/uEmacs Line Continuation
Message-ID: <882@investor.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 12:02:08 GMT
References: <292@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU> <3630005@wdl1.UUCP> <6150@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
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> In article <3630005@wdl1.UUCP> jcw@wdl1.UUCP (John C Williams) writes:
> >So, enlighten those of us who were born last week, how does uEmacs handle
> >line continuation?
> 
> 	Not well enough yet. Any overlength line results in a '$' in the
> rightmost column. Moving the cursor into the line, when you move near
> the right margin, it scrolls that single line to the left allowing you
> to edit. I am preparing to allow you to select, via an environment
> variable, the ability of scrolling the entire current window when this
> occurs.
> 
Fantastic!  I may be unique, but I often edit files with very long lines.
Spread sheet output is an example.  I can put my terminal in 132 column
mode, but this doesn't help for longer lines.  The single line scroll has
been a souirce of constant frustration.
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				 412-471-5320
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