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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 08:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: 56393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:56:51 +0200

Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org> writes:

>> WDYT about marking buffers that don't want auto narrowing?  Or the
>> opssite, mark buffers that want it?
>>
>
> One of the explicit aims when designing that feature was that it
> should be as transparent as possible.  And it is: only a few selected
> places in xdisp.c see its effect.

Okay.

> That being said, you can do what you want nonetheless: if you
> (setq-local long-line-threshold nil) the optimizations will never be
> used (in that buffer), if you (setq-local long-line-threshold 0) the
> optimizations will always be used (in that buffer).
>
> Adding code to expose the feature further to Lisp would be (IMO) a
> mistake.

Understood.
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