Re: Truncating lines in the article buffer

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:19:55 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Then you can't render HTML accurately with the current approach.  You're
>> fighting Emacs at every step: the text layout is hard, you can't flow
>> around images, displaying images is a pain, etc.

LMI> No, the only thing that's impossible is to render images in tables.  The
LMI> rest works pretty well.  (If we'd have truncate-lines on a per-line
LMI> basis, it'd be pretty darn perfect.)

Why not walk through the buffer and apply the equivalent of
truncate-lines to every line?  You could set some text property to
indicate it's needed.

LMI> I'm fine with not displaying the images in the tables.  I think it's
LMI> impossible* to do in Emacs, but it's not very important.  Having the
LMI> text be readable is, though.

You could display the image as an icon (the size of a character) and the
user can toggle it to full size with RET or mouse-1.

Ted