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Re: Horizantal scrol (how to get rid of $ and see what I am typing)

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From: Michael Cook
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:25
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teege@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Gunnar Teege) writes:

>This truncating feature can be controlled by setting the variable
>'truncate-lines'. In my .emacs i define the following command:

>(defun toggle-truncate ()
>  (interactive)
>  (setq truncate-lines (not truncate-lines)))

>and bind it to a key sequence. Thus I can easily toggle between
>truncated lines and wrapped lines.

>After toggling it is sometimes necessary to force a redisplay by C-l to see
>the effects.

Does anyone know how to fix this (the C-l, redisplay problem)?  I find it most
annoying.

Michael.
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