Re: Enabling truncate-lines on a per-line basis

[Kevin Rodgers]

Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Matthew Dempsky <matthew@dempsky.org> wrote:
> > Is there currently a way to selectively enable truncation on certain
> > lines, but leave it disabled on others?
>
> Looking at xdisp.c, it looks like there's no elisp solution to setting
> line_wrap == TRUNCATION on a per-line basis, and even if there was, it
> looks like more of the display algorithm would need reworking to
> support it.

Maybe you could set the display text property on each line (starting
just before the right margin), to emulate truncate-lines.

If that works, you might be able to set the property via font-lock.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA