Displaying continuation lines in Emacs in a text terminal
I'm using Debian sid with X installed. Emacs, running as a GUI, shows little bent arrows at the right edge to indicate continuation lines . When I start Emacs -nw
in text terminal mode, the character \
does not appear in the right margin to indicate continuation lines. I went through the file ~/.emacs
to see if it sets the parameter but couldn't find anything that matched it.
How can I tell Emacs in text terminal mode to display a character \
in the right margin to indicate continuation lines?
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If word-wrap
set to a value nil
in an Emacs text terminal ( -nw
), a backslash character appears in the right margin.
If for is word-wrap
set to t
in text terminalEmacs, the backslash character is not . The installation visual-line-mode
also sets word-wrap
to true.
This does not apply when Emacs is running as a GUI window: a small curved arrow appears in the right margin regardless of the value word-wrap
.
Tested by Emacs 23.4.1 under Debian sid.
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It looks like toggle-truncate-lines
- this is one Emacs function that causes the behavior you described: Silly shell tricks
Can you test it interactively with help M-x toggle-truncate-lines
to see if it fixes it for you?
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