Subject: Re: bug#57684: locked narrowing breaks existing code without an apparent way to repair

From: Paul Pogonyshev <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 22:30:45 +0200

Good to hear. I think in all cases it should be left to the coder to
temporarily lift restrictions, even if those are "locked", maybe
with strong warnings in documentation. Speed should always
come a second priority to functionality. Besides, Logview (one
example of what would suffer if widening is impossible) is very
fast.

As an example of why widening might be needed: fontification
may depend on preceding text in the buffer. Maybe standard
Emacs fontification code handles that separately, but e.g.
Logview (almost) completely replaces the standard code here
with a home-grown solution aimed specifically at log files. And
actually this was done exactly for speed.

Anyway, I hope this is finished soon.

Paul

On Thu, 8 Sept 2022 at 21:57, Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]> wrote:

>
> >
> > "Locked narrowing" added in Emacs 29 cannot be (temporarily) canceled by
> > code called inside.
> >
>
> This issue is being worked on, see the (not yet finished)
> feature/improved-locked-narrowing branch.
>