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@cindex continuation line
@cindex wrapping
@cindex line wrapping
  If you add too many characters to one line without breaking it with
@key{RET}, the line will grow to occupy two (or more) lines on the screen,
with a @samp{\} at the extreme right margin of all but the last of them.
The @samp{\} says that the following screen line is not really a distinct
line in the text, but just the @dfn{continuation} of a line too long to fit
the screen.  Continuation is also called @dfn{line wrapping}.

  Sometimes it is nice to have Emacs insert newlines automatically when
a line gets too long.  Continuation on the screen does not do that.  Use
Auto Fill mode (@pxref{Filling}) if that's what you want.

@vindex truncate-lines
@findex toggle-truncate-lines
@cindex truncation
  As an alternative to continuation, Emacs can display long lines by
@dfn{truncation}.  This means that all the characters that do not fit in
the width of the screen or window do not appear at all.  They remain in
the buffer, temporarily invisible.  @samp{$} is used in the last column
instead of @samp{\} to inform you that truncation is in effect.

  Truncation instead of continuation happens whenever horizontal
scrolling is in use, and optionally in all side-by-side windows
(@pxref{Windows}).  You can enable truncation for a particular buffer by
setting the variable @code{truncate-lines} to non-@code{nil} in that

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@cindex continuation line
@cindex wrapping
@cindex line wrapping
  If you add too many characters to one line without breaking it with
@key{RET}, the line will grow to occupy two (or more) lines on the
screen.  On terminals, one or more @samp{\} characters are displayed
at the extreme right margin of all but the last of them.  The @samp{\}
characters say that the following screen line is not really a distinct
line in the text, but just the @dfn{continuation} of a line too long
to fit the screen.  Continuation is also called @dfn{line wrapping}.
More than one @samp{\} is displayed for a wrapped character which is
wider than one column.  On window systems, small bitmaps are displayed
in the fringes to the left and right of the window to indicate line
wrapping.

  Sometimes it is nice to have Emacs insert newlines automatically when
a line gets too long.  Continuation on the screen does not do that.  Use
Auto Fill mode (@pxref{Filling}) if that's what you want.

@vindex truncate-lines
@findex toggle-truncate-lines
@cindex truncation
  As an alternative to continuation, Emacs can display long lines by
@dfn{truncation}.  This means that all the characters that do not fit
in the width of the screen or window do not appear at all.  They
remain in the buffer, temporarily invisible.  On terminals, @samp{$}
is used in the last column instead of @samp{\} to inform you that
truncation is in effect.  On window systems, a small bitmap in the
fringe to the right of the window indicates line truncation.

  Truncation instead of continuation happens whenever horizontal
scrolling is in use, and optionally in all side-by-side windows
(@pxref{Windows}).  You can enable truncation for a particular buffer by
setting the variable @code{truncate-lines} to non-@code{nil} in that