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Refill read only buffer - not possible?         


Author: Xnox_afc
Date: Aug 14, 2008 08:07

I'm using terminal emacs over ssh on my cellphone. Display is not very
wide and when I enter info mode I get all text similar to this:

Very long sentense which goes and goes on\
and on.
But this is next sentense which also looks lik\
e this.

I tried to do refill-buffer but it told be that I can't do this in a
*read-only* buffer =((((
Is it possible to redisplay info mode so that I can read it normally
eg:

Very long sentense which goes and goes on
and on. But this is next sentense which also
looks like this.
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Re: Refill read only buffer - not possible?         


Author: B. T. Raven
Date: Aug 14, 2008 09:26

Xnox_afc wrote:
> I'm using terminal emacs over ssh on my cellphone. Display is not very
> wide and when I enter info mode I get all text similar to this:
>
> Very long sentense which goes and goes on\
> and on.
> But this is next sentense which also looks lik\
> e this.
>
> I tried to do refill-buffer but it told be that I can't do this in a
> *read-only* buffer =((((
> Is it possible to redisplay info mode so that I can read it normally
> eg:
>
> Very long sentense which goes and goes on
> and on. But this is next sentense which also
> looks like this.

C-x C-q = M-x toggle-read-only
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Re: Refill read only buffer - not possible?         


Author: Peter Dyballa
Date: Aug 14, 2008 23:53

Am 14.08.2008 um 17:07 schrieb Xnox_afc:
> Very long sentense which goes and goes on
> and on. But this is next sentense which also
> looks like this.

Could be GNU Emacs has not read the correct values of environment
variables COLUMNS and LINES ...

The important value is COLUMNS. If it is not supplied by the shell's
RC files, then launch GNU Emacs with an extra argument like '-
geometry 25x50' that is suited to the screen's dimensions – in
characters!

--
Greetings

Pete

Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak.
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