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25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken

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From: Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:27:10 -0700

1. emacs -Q
2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
instead of breaking word.



In GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2016-11-15 built on LAPHROAIG
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.14393
Configured using:
 'configure --without-dbus --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2
 -static -g3''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  table-fixed-width-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-eldoc-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
You can run the command ‘table-insert’ with M-x ta-i RET
Table-Fixed-Width mode enabled in current buffer
You can run the command ‘table-fixed-width-mode’ with C-c C-c !
Table-Fixed-Width mode enabled in current buffer

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Message #14 received at 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26701: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:58:48 +0200

Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
> 3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
> 4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
> instead of breaking word.

(I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that unfortunately got no
response at the time.)

I tried reproducing this, but I apparently have no such command as
`M-x insert-table'.  What does it do?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #17 received at 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26701: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 06:05:59 -0700

Hi Lars,

My apologies, it was "table-insert," not "insert-table."  It sets up
an ASCII table:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Table-Creation.html#Table-Creation

I had forgotten I filed this report!

Best Regards,
-Forrest


On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:58 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 1. emacs -Q
> > 2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
> > 3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
> > 4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
> > instead of breaking word.
>
> (I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that unfortunately got no
> response at the time.)
>
> I tried reproducing this, but I apparently have no such command as
> `M-x insert-table'.  What does it do?
>
> --
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #20 received at 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#26701: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:53:11 -0400

On Wed 09 Oct 2019 at 09:58, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> wrote:

> Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1. emacs -Q
>> 2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
>> 3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
>> 4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
>> instead of breaking word.
>
> (I'm going through old Emacs bug reports that unfortunately got no
> response at the time.)
>
> I tried reproducing this, but I apparently have no such command as
> `M-x insert-table'.  What does it do?

I think it's M-x table-insert now. I can reproduce this bug, FWIW.
Weirdly, too, the text takes a bit to appear although the cursor moves
forward.

Alex

Message #23 received at 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26701: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:51:14 +0200

Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com> writes:

> My apologies, it was "table-insert," not "insert-table."  It sets up
> an ASCII table:

Ah, thanks.  I've never used this before...

[...]

>> > 1. emacs -Q
>> > 2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
>> > 3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
>> > 4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
>> > instead of breaking word.

I can reproduce the bug in Emacs 27, and looking at the code in
`table--cell-insert-char', it's just not used when inserting a
character -- even if the mode is on, words are never broken.

The code has been substantially rewritten over the years, and my guess
is that one of the rewrites made the code that actually did the
fixed-width-mode went missing, but finding what commit did this is
rather difficult.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #26 received at 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 26701 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26701: 25.1; table-fixed-width-mode broken
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:49:34 +0100

Forrest Sedgwick <fgsedgwick <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x insert-table in the scratch buffer, accept defaults
> 3. M-x table-fixed-width-mode
> 4. Type a word longer than column width, table automatically expands
> instead of breaking word.

I've now fixed this in Emacs 29.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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