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Obscure doc string of new variable syntax-wholeline-max

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Message #14 received at 57009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 57009 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57009: Obscure doc string of new variable syntax-wholeline-max
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:46:25 +0200

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> Say the chunk is 64 characters long.  Doesn't parse-partial-sexp process
> that "as a chunk" anyway?  How does one determine where a "chunk" starts
> and where it ends?  What does "treating a line as a chunk" do that is new
> that we didn't do before?

I interpret that as saying that the line is split into chunks (of the
length the variable says) and processed one after the other.

> It is anything but self-evident.  It might be by setting the variable to
> 0, it might be by setting it to nil, it might be, as you suggest by
> setting it to a larger size than you think will occur in practice (i.e.
> there's no way to disable it).  All these ways are in use in Emacs.

Yes, that's true.

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