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[PATCH] pp.el: New "pretty printing" code

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 63861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#63861: [PATCH] pp.el: New "pretty printing" code
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:09:15 +0000

Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I haven't seen "really bizarre results" with `pp-region` yet, but
> I wouldn't be surprised if that can happen: I've been playing with
> various pretty-printing alternatives over the years and they all seem to
> suffer from weird behaviors occasionally, except for those that insert
> too many line breaks.

If algorithms that insert "too many" line breaks can be reasonably fast,
can they be executed first followed by merging the excessive lines back?

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