emacs question: suppressing backslashes

[David Kramer]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Kent Borg wrote:

> I have an emacs question, and am hoping there is a guru out there.
> 
> When I run emacs in a text window (using the -nw flag) wrapped long
> lines display with backslashes at the end.  Is there a way to turn
> that off?
> 
> The reason I ask is I have found it convenient to use screen (which is
> like running in a terminal window) and I want to be able to cut and
> paste.  But if I use my mouse to copy a long line from an emacs window
> I get extra backslashes in my paste, upsetting other programs.
> Suppressing those backslashes would avoid that.  Is there some option
> to do this?

toggle-truncate-lines         <menu-bar> <options> <truncate-lines>
  Command: Toggle whether to truncate long lines on the screen.

Might help a little.  It doesn't look like there's a way to do exactly 
what you want.

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