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From: mcgrath%paris.Berkeley.EDU@GINGER.BERKELEY.EDU (Roland McGrath)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: long lines
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Date: 20 Mar 89 20:38:09 GMT
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If a line has exactly as many chars as the window (like 80),
Emacs will continue it with a backslash, so you end up with
79 chars, a backslash, and one char on the next line, when
without the backslash, it would all fit on one line.