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From: gildea@BBN.COM (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: end of line
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Date: 16 Feb 89 17:01:44 GMT
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    Date: 16 Feb 89 05:15:59 GMT
    From: David C Lawrence <tale@its.rpi.edu>
    
    I think that on some occasions it would be nice to have a buffer-local
    variable that would behave like truncate-lines but not quite.  This
    happens with a couple of interactive processes and while reading
    USENET news in GNUS ... some people are inclined to make lines of
    exactly eighty characters long, LFD not included.  I don't want the
    lines truncated; I just don't want them wrapped if they could be
    displayed on one screen line

A simple solution that works fairly well (but not perfectly) is to
evaluate (set-screen-width 81 t) and then turn off auto wrap on your
terminal.

 < Stephen