Re: How to enable wrapping after C-x 3

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.07.2007 um 08:46 schrieb furue@hawaii.edu:

> (The documentation
> of truncate-lines says it's overriden by truncate-partial-
> width-windows.  I don't know how these two variables
> are meant to work together.)

I think this has historical reason. In GNU Emacsen 18 and 19 truncate- 
lines worked, AFAIR. Then GNU Emacs learned to split a frame into  
windows and finally a new concept was created which also introduced  
truncate-partial-width-windows. This sets a new general clipping  
default for all buffers, as truncate-lines did before. Now it's a  
buffer local variable, i.e. it only applies when set inside a  
particular buffer *and* then only when the user is deviating from the  
clipping default. So truncate-lines now can be set to truncate lines  
in some buffers in spite of the general user setting.

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