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changeset 100035:2fc82decfdd6
(Line Truncation): Add reference to Continuation Lines.
| author | Martin Rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> |
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| date | Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:35:51 +0000 |
| parents | 752a5667efcc |
| children | 638342cdddb4 |
| files | doc/emacs/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/doc/emacs/display.texi Sat Nov 29 13:35:07 2008 +0000 +++ b/doc/emacs/display.texi Sat Nov 29 13:35:51 2008 +0000 @@ -1154,13 +1154,14 @@ @cindex truncation @cindex line truncation, and fringes - 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. On -graphical displays, a small straight arrow in the fringe indicates -truncation at either end of the line. On text-only terminals, @samp{$} -appears in the first column when there is text truncated to the left, -and in the last column when there is text truncated to the right. + As an alternative to continuation (@pxref{Continuation Lines}), Emacs +can display long lines by @dfn{truncation}. This means that all the +characters that do not fit in the width of the screen or window do not +appear at all. On graphical displays, a small straight arrow in the +fringe indicates truncation at either end of the line. On text-only +terminals, @samp{$} appears in the first column when there is text +truncated to the left, and in the last column when there is text +truncated to the right. @vindex truncate-lines @findex toggle-truncate-lines