GNU bug report logs - #56393
Actually fix the long lines display bug

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, 56393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:33:51 +0000

>> Thanks for the detailed explanation.  It's clear that computing that 
>> information would largely outweigh its potential benefit, so I'll have 
>> to live without that potential optimization.
>
> If you had a way to do this, for how many characters would you need to 
> have this info?  (I presume you want it for characters before point, but 
> how many?)
>

For something like two screenful characters before window point.  But as I 
said, if the infrastructure does not already exist, it's not worth the 
price.  I asked just in case I missed something, because I did not want to 
omit an potential optimization, but (as you probably understood) I'm 
firmly against over-engineering.

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