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From: ugwiles@cs.buffalo.edu (Dale Wiles)
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Subject: Re: Line-wrapping as opposed to line-truncating
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Date: 7 Mar 89 19:47:21 GMT
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In-reply-to: brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister)

In article <BRISTER.89Mar6203142@andrea.td2cad.intel.com>, brister@td2cad (James Brister) writes:
>
>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?
>

Yup. Just M-x set-variable
	  truncate-lines t

Set it back to nill to turn it off. For more help do C-h v truncate-lines.

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