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From: ugnick@sunybcs.uucp (Nick Triantos)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Line-wrapping as opposed to line-truncating
Message-ID: <4525@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 89 14:19:41 GMT
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Reply-To: ugnick@sunybcs.UUCP (Nick Triantos)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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I'm rather used to using (please, no flames) EVE on VMS.

I've finally started using Emacs (GNU Version 18.53 on an Encore Multimax
running Umax), but I greatly miss one of the features of EVE.  Is there a way
to force Emacs to truncate a line when it approaches the right column instead
of just letting it continue on and put a "\" on the screen.  In EVE, when the
right margin is hit while typing, EVE backtraces the line for a word break and
inserts a <Ret> before the word which wraps past the right margin.

Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated...
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