Yes, that seems to do the trick - Thanks!
Btw, why is this option the default in org-mode? It is the opposite of
the fundamental mode.

:- Guy

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi
<giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>wrote:

> Guy Wiener <wiener.guy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi, Guy,
>
> > When the cursor crosses the edge of the
> > frame, instead of placing a "long line" marker and moving to the next
> > line, the entire buffer is shifted to the left and the cursor remains
> > on the same line.
>
> > Can this behavior be disabled, and replaced the the same behavior as
> > in fundamental text editing? It is really annoying, especially when
> > using auto-fill mode.
>
> M-x toggle-truncate-lines          does help?
>
> so that "Truncate long lines disabled".
>
> Or place in your .emacs:
> (setq truncate-lines t)
>
> cheers,
> Giovanni
>