Re: A couple of questions...

[Francis Moreau]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

>> The default behavior of Emacs is to wrap long lines.  What you wrote
>> above seems to be the result of a local customization.
>
> You're right: asking for the description of this variable tells me:
>
> ,----
> | truncate-lines is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> | Its value is t
> | Local in buffer *Summary gmane.emacs.gnus.user*; global value is nil
> | Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion.
> `----
>
> So this variable seems to have been customized locally though I don't
> know why.

I finally got the answer: this actually happens when the window was
splitted horizontally. In this case emacs does not wrap long lines
except if you set 'truncate-partial-width-windows' to nil.

Francis