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24.5; toggle-truncate-lines not mentioned in docstring for truncate-lines nor in elisp manual

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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
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Subject: bug#22303: closed (24.5; toggle-truncate-lines not mentioned in
 docstring for truncate-lines nor in elisp manual)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:12:02 +0000

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From: phs <phs <at> lsv.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; toggle-truncate-lines not mentioned in docstring for
 truncate-lines nor in elisp manual
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:30:17 +0100

In general, changing the value of `truncate-lines' should be done via 
`toggle-truncate-lines' not by `(setq truncate-lines ..)'

However the documentation string for `truncate-lines' does not mention 
the existence of `toggle-truncate-lines', nor is it mentioned in the
elisp manual (section "37.3 Truncation").

It seems that modifying `truncate-lines' with just `(setq ..)' may 
suffer from redisplay problems, see 
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19228 for a way to trip the 
problem from emacs -Q.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: phs <at> lsv.fr
Cc: 22303-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22303: 24.5;
 toggle-truncate-lines not mentioned in docstring for truncate-lines
 nor in elisp manual
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 19:11:31 +0200

> From: phs <phs <at> lsv.fr>
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:30:17 +0100
> 
> In general, changing the value of `truncate-lines' should be done via 
> `toggle-truncate-lines' not by `(setq truncate-lines ..)'
> 
> However the documentation string for `truncate-lines' does not mention 
> the existence of `toggle-truncate-lines', nor is it mentioned in the
> elisp manual (section "37.3 Truncation").
> 
> It seems that modifying `truncate-lines' with just `(setq ..)' may 
> suffer from redisplay problems, see 
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/19228 for a way to trip the 
> problem from emacs -Q.

Thanks for pointing this out.

The answers on stackexchange are incorrect: there's nothing wrong with
setting 'truncate-lines' directly.  The situation described there
revealed a bug, which I just fixed for the next release.

I see no need to change the documentation in this regard.

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