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

[Kevin Rodgers]

Matthew Dempsky wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe you could set the display text property on each line (starting
> > just before the right margin), to emulate truncate-lines.
>
> Nope, text from the 'display' property text still wraps. Also, you
> can't navigate through it with the point. :(

I meant, if you want the buffer text truncated at column N, set the display
property at column N - 1 through the rest of the line to a single character
(e.g. U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS or U+22EF MIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS) to
indicate truncation.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA