hmn most counter intuitive, I have the menu item and purposely unchecked it. I used the keyboard combo and see it is now checked and works like I want. Which would make me think now the line is truncated, but infact it now works.
sometimes it pays to fiddle and not try to understand. sorta like the ancient adage Ha maaseh hu ha ikar... Aaron On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:16, Omer Zak wrote: > Hello Aaron, > The following works in the version of emacs which I have (GNU Emacs > 21.3.1 of 2004-10-16, modified by Debian): > Options/Truncate Long Lines in this Buffer (4th menu item from top) > > The lines are not really truncated, they are just displayed without > wraparound. > > If you don't have the above menu+menu item, the following command may > work, too: > M-x toggle-truncate-lines > > (where M-x is the ALT-x key combination in out-of-the-box keyboard > configuration). > > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 02:28, Aaron wrote: > > HI all, > > > > I am using nxml for editing xml and want to be able to scroll forever to > > the right. I can't figure out how to do this in emacs, but I need this > > desperately. > > > > anyone know how? > --- Omer ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]