> > in my .emacs so I can see all of the error messages without having to scroll > > (I usually have truncate-lines set to t for all other modes). (Aside of my > > own - auto-show-mode sometimes doesn't work in the ecb edit window, and > > turning truncate-lines off doesn't make the lines wrap - does anyone else > > see this behavior?) > No, with my setting above i have never seen this behavior. Here i must write some words more: AFAIK auto-show-mode is obsolete since Emacs 20.X. Use hscroll-mode or hscroll-global-mode! At least the doc-string in Emacs 21 says: auto-show-mode: obsolete. Klaus