Variable: message-truncate-lines

message-truncate-lines is a variable defined in xdisp.c.

Value

nil

Documentation

If non-nil, messages are truncated when displaying the echo area.

Bind this around calls to message to let it take effect.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/xdisp.c
  DEFVAR_BOOL ("message-truncate-lines", message_truncate_lines,
    doc: /* If non-nil, messages are truncated when displaying the echo area.
Bind this around calls to `message' to let it take effect.  */);