From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: Truly extensible editors Article-I.D.: ucb.1238 Posted: Tue Jun 1 16:51:06 1982 Received: Wed Jun 2 03:11:48 1982 >From MT@MIT-AI Tue Jun 1 16:43:15 1982 Date: Friday, 28 May 1982 16:34-PDT From: KDO at SRI-KL To: editor-people at su-score Subject: Truly extensible editors Thus it is a real deficiency that EMACS cannot truncate lines at the right margin, since there are a lot of people in the world that seem to like it. This is impossible in EMACS as it is now... In fact there is a TECO flag that controls whether or not lines are truncated. It is always set to not truncate in ^R mode (which is what EMACS is always in) but it probably wouldn't be too hard to fix this, if anybody cared enough to do it.