Re: When in no-window use GNU Emacs clips contents in *Backtrace* buffer

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.08.2007 um 23:56 schrieb Jason Rumney:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > When I try the same in xterm or in Apple's Terminal without windows,
> > the truncated lines like in this example
> >
> >     Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable -)
> >       eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/Users/pete/.emacs" nil  
> > t)  ;
> > Reading at buffer position 2$
> >       load-with-code-conversion("/Users/pete/.emacs"
> > "/Users/pete/.emacs" t t)
> >
> > are not expanded, they seem to be clipped in *Backtrace* buffer. So
> > it's not easy to get the buffer position where the error happens ...
>
> How do you copy them in the xterm window? If you use xterm's clipboard
> integration, then you shouldn't expect to get more than xterm can  
> see on
> the clipboard.

I was doing exactly that! In the GNU Emacs X client it works, xterm  
is another X client ...

It would be at least helpful when the lines weren't truncated by some  
default in some kind of information hiding!

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Greetings

  Pete

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