Out-of-the-box Emacs (28.2, in case it matters) will use a "continuation mode" for text files. Long lines within a paragraph wrap around at the end of the frame.

Out-of-the-box Org-mode will expect either scrolling...

... or else the use of fill-paragraph.

For text-heavy documents that I'm repeatedly editing, I prefer not to continuously fill-paragraph. In these cases I prefer to edit using the full frame width for my monitor.

How can I avoid fill-paragraph in org-mode?

Related

1. This question has been asked before.

I can indeed set in my .emacs either

(setq 'truncate-lines nil)

or

(setq 'truncate-lines t)

but the latter does not do what I describe above. Ideally I'd isolate this in a hook for just org-mode, but first I need to understand why truncate-lines doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

2. This one-line will do the trick, at the price of inserting it in each file.

Out-of-the-box Emacs (28.2, in case it matters) will use a "continuation mode" for text files. Long lines within a paragraph wrap around at the end of the frame.

Out-of-the-box Org-mode will expect either scrolling...

... or else the use of fill-paragraph.

For text-heavy documents that I'm repeatedly editing, I prefer not to continuously fill-paragraph. In these cases I prefer to edit using the full frame width for my monitor.

How can I avoid fill-paragraph in org-mode?

Related

1. This question has been asked before.

I can indeed set in my .emacs either

(setq 'truncate-lines nil)

or

(setq 'truncate-lines t)

but the latter does not do what I describe above. Ideally I'd isolate this in a hook for just org-mode, but first I need to understand why truncate-lines doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

2. This one-line will do the trick, at the price of inserting it in each file.
3. Make visual-line-mode more compatible with org-mode.

Out-of-the-box Emacs (28.2, in case it matters) will use a "continuation mode" for text files. Long lines within a paragraph wrap around at the end of the frame.

Out-of-the-box Org-mode will expect either scrolling...

... or else the use of fill-paragraph.

For text-heavy documents that I'm repeatedly editing, I prefer not to continuously fill-paragraph. In these cases I prefer to edit using the full frame width for my monitor.

How can I avoid fill-paragraph in org-mode?

Out-of-the-box Emacs (28.2, in case it matters) will use a "continuation mode" for text files. Long lines within a paragraph wrap around at the end of the frame.

Out-of-the-box Org-mode will expect either scrolling...

... or else the use of fill-paragraph.

For text-heavy documents that I'm repeatedly editing, I prefer not to continuously fill-paragraph. In these cases I prefer to edit using the full frame width for my monitor.

How can I avoid fill-paragraph in org-mode?

Related

1. This question has been asked before.

I can indeed set in my .emacs either

(setq 'truncate-lines nil)

or

(setq 'truncate-lines t)

but the latter does not do what I describe above. Ideally I'd isolate this in a hook for just org-mode, but first I need to understand why truncate-lines doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

2. This one-line will do the trick, at the price of inserting it in each file.