GNU bug report logs - #70236
Truncating only happening on 900 character long lines in *compilation* buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 09:15:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 70236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: 70236 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70236: Truncating only happening on 900 character long
 lines in *compilation* buffer
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 13:31:28 +1200

This will generate the same output as that perl:

(cl-loop for n from 100 to 1500 by 100 do
         (insert (number-to-string n)
                 " [\"" (make-string n (string-to-char
                                          (format "%X" (/ n 100))))
                 "\"]\n\n"))

If you write that to a file "test" in some temp dir and have
a Makefile like this:

foo:
	cat test

Then the suggested command will demonstrate the issue:

emacs -Q -f compile

What you're looking at is the difference between the "900" line
(which gets truncated) and all the other lines (which do not).

compilation-max-output-line-length is 400
This bug report was last modified 1 year and 38 days ago.

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