GNU bug report logs - #15396
permanent-local truncate-lines

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:42:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #6 received at 15396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 15396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#15396: permanent-local truncate-lines
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:56:29 -0700 (PDT)

> I wish truncate-lines was permanent local. Motivation:
> M-x toggle-truncate-lines ; now lines are truncated
> M-x revert-buffer   ; now lines are untruncated again

FWIW, the manual says that "Permanent locals are appropriate for data
pertaining to where the file came from or how to save it, rather than
with how to edit the contents."

Display seems to be related more to how to edit than to where the file
came from or how to save it.

Not that that guideline is a biblical injunction, to be followed blindly,
but its characterization does not seem to apply here.  Dunno whether
it is appropriate to consider the guideline here.
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