Subject: bug#58687: 29.0.50; Enabling pp-use-max-width dramatically slows down formatting of large sexps like org-persist--index

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:42:48 +0200

> From: Michael Eliachevitch <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 22:22:20 +0000
> 
> On 2023-01-12 at 18:39 +02, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Not "the current 'pp'", but the implementation for this optional
> > behavior.
> 
> This is optional behavior, but I would prefer if the performance impact of enabling this optional behavior would be documented, e.g. in the variable docstring and NEWS.29.

Done.

> On 2023-01-12 at 22:03 +0530, Visuwesh <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I always thought it would be best if the user facing
> > commands like pp-eval-sexp and friends alone respected the user option.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.

Also done.  (Most of the functions already honored this option, but 2
of them didn't.)