GNU bug report logs - #44818
Say "Consider switching so-long mode on" when detecting long line files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Devon2020 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:40:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 44809

Found in version 27.0.91

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #75 received at 44818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: Emacs-hacker2018 <at> jovi.net, 44818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44818: 27.0.91; wedged
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:36:23 +0200

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: Emacs-hacker2018 <at> jovi.net, 44818 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 01:01:10 -0500
> 
>   > You suggested to behave as if truncate-lines is turned on when we
>   > discover a line whose rendering takes too long.  I'm saying that doing
>   > so will prevent users from seeing more than a hundred or so characters
>   > of every line, and hide the rest.
> 
> Yes, it would.  Wouldn't that be better than what happens now?

Not in all case, IME.
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