Re: chop long lines?

[Pascal Damian]

Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message 
news:<873c1dl26q.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>...
> > How to make emacs behave like "less -S", i.e. don't wrap long text
> > lines at all but allow us to do horizontal scrolling. I want 1 text
> > line to always appear as 1 screen line, no matter how long the text
> > line is. Most editors I've known (except vi) behave like this.
> > 
> > I've tried screen-lines.el, which is nice and which I will use, but it
> > doesn't do the above.
> 
> Another ill named emacs function: M-x toggle-truncate-lines RET

Ah, thanks. You made my day. I've tried emacs for only two days now,
and that was my biggest emacs annoyance.

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Pascal Damian