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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6205@debbugs.gnu.org, Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>,
	John Wiegley <johnw@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6205: 23.1; align.el error deleting a lot of whitespace
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 05:55:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25CC99A7-2F8C-4C33-AE6D-530584B78D73@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsk5osh2b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On May 18, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> John, what's your opinion?
> The patch looks OK to me, but at the same time, the code is pretty
> impenetrable from here,

Just be really careful with this change.  align.el is extremely sensitive to cursor positions.  If it gets enough testing, I'm fine with it.

One thing I used to do to test it back in the day was to run align-code on a very large C file.  If the result looked upon visual examination, I was happy.

John




  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-17 23:29 bug#6205: 23.1; align.el error deleting a lot of whitespace Kevin Ryde
2010-05-19  3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-19  9:55   ` John Wiegley [this message]
2010-06-08  2:01     ` Kevin Ryde
2019-11-23 13:20       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-10 13:06         ` Stefan Kangas

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