Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!td2cad!brister From: brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Line-wrapping as opposed to line-truncating Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 89 04:31:42 GMT References: <4525@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <18082@gatech.edu> Sender: news@td2cad.intel.com Distribution: usa Organization: Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, USA Lines: 14 In-reply-to: ken@gatech.edu's message of 6 Mar 89 15:55:13 GMT Can it be arranged to have GNU-EMACS truncate the line (with possibly a trailing character to indicate this), but not wrap it when auto-fill is off? (i.e. you type the characters and the cursor stays glued to the right margin). Actually I wouldn't want to enter text this way, but it would be nice sometimes to have the lines truncated when pulling in an existing file, especially where every line is >80 characters. James -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Brister brister@td2cad.intel.com (408) 765-9713 ...!decwrl!td2cad!brister "Is the set of all respectable sets respectable?"