Can I break the long line in emacs (non windows) to the next line?
You can customize the word-wrap
variable to visually wrap lines. This should be similar to longlines-mode
, except it would use the buffer width rather than the fill column for wrapping.
You can alternatively use visual-line-mode
to both enable word wrapping, and also "Redefine simple editing commands to act on visual lines, not logical lines", which addresses a point that nominolo mentioned.
You can get emacs to break long lines into multiple shorter lines with M-x fill-paragraph
or M-x fill-region
. You can also make this the default behavior with M-x auto-fill-mode
.
You can disable line truncation with M-x
set-variable
truncate-lines
nil
.
You can also put in your .emacs (setq-default truncate-lines nil)
to have that setting by default.