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minibuffer and truncate-lines

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From: Sean Boisen
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 15:31
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I strongly prefer that my lines don't wrap by default, so i do
(set-default 'truncate-lines t). There is one notable exception,
however: the minibuffer. 

truncate-lines says:
Automatically becomes local when set in any fashion.

So i expected that i could specifically set the value in the
minibuffer, and it would stick from one entry into the minibuffer to
the next. The problem is that the value gets lost, or more precisely,
reverts to the default, each time around.

set-default says:
The default value is seen in buffers that do not have their own values
for this variable.

I guess the conclusion is that the minibuffer doesn't have its own
value for truncate-lines? Is there some sort of hook i can use for
this? I know i can hack a function which will both expand the
minibuffer and set its value for truncate-lines to nil, but i'm
looking for something that i don't have to constantly re-invoke. 

This is Emacs 18.54.1, on Sun-4 OS 4

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Sean Boisen -- sboisen@bbn.com
BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge MA
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