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Re: Emacs and vertical split



In article <[🔎] 19990225195543.O23460@finlandia.artis.uni-oldenburg.de>,
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de> wrote:
>Err, this problem is tricky.  In Emacs I splitted the screen vertically,
>which should work with 132 coloums, I thought.  (C-x 3 or C-x Shift-3).
>
>Then I tried to display a text in both windows but some lines are wider
>than 65 characters.  I don't seem to be able to view what is hidden on
>the right side.

Although you don't mention which Emacs flavour and version you're
using, I belive that the universal answer is to look at the
`truncate-lines' and maybe the `truncate-partial-width-windows'
variable(s).

HTH

SRH
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Steve Haslam            Validation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England
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