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no \ in line continuations

#188709
From: Rick Greer
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1991 14:07
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I'd like to use the mouse on my terminal to sweep out portions 
of an EMACS window for pasting into some other window.

Unfortunately, since EMACS inserts backslashes into continued
lines, I get these unwanted backslashes in the cut-out portion.
How do I turn this feature off?  The only hook to modify this behavior 
I know of is (setq truncate-lines t) but that's no good because 
I don't want to truncate the line: I want all of it displayed
in its undoctored form.

In short, is there some way to prevent EMACS from inserting 
backslashes into continued lines?

Rick Greer
AT&T Bell Labs
rxga@ulysses.att.com
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From: rxga@ulysses.att.com (Rick Greer)
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Subject: no \ in line continuations
Keywords: emacs continuations
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