truncating long lones in Emacs (was emacs-20.3)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

>                                   Is there a way to stop emacs from
> wraping the text on the screen so that extra long lines do not wrap to the
> next line

To set this generally for all future buffers, pu this in ~/.emacs

 (setq default-truncate-lines t)

For this buffer only, set the variable truncate-lines:

 M-x set-variable [RET] truncate-lines [RET] t

Or stick this defun in your ~/.emacs and perhaps bind it to a key:

(defun toggle-truncate ()
  "set or unset line truncation"
  (interactive)
  (if truncate-lines
      (setq truncate-lines nil)
    (setq truncate-lines t)))

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