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so-long-commentary: say how to prepare against long line output

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 61465 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61465: so-long-commentary: say how to prepare against long
 line output
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 15:52:02 +0200

tags 61465 wontfix
close 61465
thanks

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 07:26:14 +0800
> 
> (so-long-commentary)
> should mention how to guard against
> M-! shell-command "cat long_line_file.txt", and
> M-x compile "cat long_line_file.txt"
> in addition to just dealing with
> M-x find-file long_line_file.txt .
> 
> emacs-version "28.2"

This mode basically takes back seat in Emacs 29, since we have much
better ways of handling files with very long lines.  So I don't think
we should invest any significant effort in extending so-long-mode now.

Closing.

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