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#72090
[Improvement] Option for disabling truncation symbols
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Reported by: the_wurfkreuz <the_wurfkreuz <at> proton.me>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:53:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
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On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:51:58 +0000 the_wurfkreuz via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> I haven't found a way to disable truncation characters when I'm not using
> line wrapping.
> There is a way to make them appear as empty spaces:
>
> (set-display-table-slot standard-display-table 'truncation ?\ )
>
> However, this isn't a real solution because it still takes up buffer
> space for no benefit.
>
> In some cases, truncation symbols on the left side of the buffer seem
> completely pointless. There's no additional context to be derived from them,
> and they just clutter the buffer.
I don't know if truncation characters can be disabled, but maybe this is
good enough as a workaround:
(set-display-table-slot standard-display-table 'truncation ?\N{ZERO WIDTH SPACE})
Steve Berman
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