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: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 21:40:36 +0000

>
> Would it help if the tick were incremented by the number of inserted (or 
> deleted or replaced) characters (perhaps limited by some reasonable 
> value, like 1000)?  That would be an easy change, and I don't think it 
> would break anything, since no current code relies on the exact value of 
> the tick, and the value you get after some non-trivial operation on a 
> buffer is generally unpredictable anyway. Would that make the tick 
> usable for this task?
>

It would.  In fact it is not even necessary to record the exact number of 
inserted/deleted/replaced characters.

>
> If you agree, I can make such a change (but feel free to do it 
> yourself).
>

I just did it, is this what you had in mind?  The tick is incremented 
logarithmically.

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