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Re: Line wrapping...


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Line wrapping...
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:01:04 GMT

In article <3XYE9.77$vl1.8506719@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
alan <alanbrown@pacbell.net> wrote:
>I've added the following line to my .emacs file to make long lines wrap.
>
>(set-default 'truncate-lines nil)
>
>It works just fine.  However, when I do C-x 3 to vertically split the
>current buffer into 2 buffers, both of the buffers stop doing line wrapping
>and the lines end in a $ to signify overflow.
>
>How can I fix this.

RTFM.  From the documentation of truncate-line:

   Note that this is overridden by the variable
   `truncate-partial-width-windows' if that variable is non-nil
   and this buffer is not full-frame width.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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