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From: exodus@mfgfoc.uucp (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: 132 characters/line in emacs?
Message-ID: <447@mfgfoc.uucp>
Date: 21 Oct 88 09:46:30 GMT
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From article <25249@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, by karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste):
> dkw@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (David Keith Wall) writes:
>    I need to edit some files that contain more than eighty characters
>    per line, but even if I switch the terminal to 132 char/line mode,
>    emacs still gives me only 80 char/line, with the right-hand side
> 
> The terminal width used by emacs is dependent on the termcap
> description for your terminal.  Check /etc/termcap to see if there is
> a description for your terminal (probably with a name like vt100-w,
> for `wide') which shows co#132 in it, for 132 columns.  Change your
> terminal type to that name and start a fresh emacs.

Also, interactively (ie. no termcap changes, on the fly, etc):

	(set-screen-width 132)

Will set the width and redraw the screen.  You can obviously change back
in the middle of the editing session with nor problems.
Also works with the screen heigth.  No guarantees... just works with
18.52 on my Sun-2.