From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57009: Obscure doc string of new variable syntax-wholeline-max Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:46:25 +0200 Message-ID: <871qts43xa.fsf@gnus.org> References: <877d3l5y4n.fsf@gnus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3743"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Stefan Monnier , 57009@debbugs.gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 14:47:25 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfgj-0000js-EY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:47:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39414 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfgi-0000R3-F5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:47:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfgN-0000OQ-FQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:46401) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfgN-0000ri-5P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:47:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfgN-0004ke-1v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:47:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:47:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57009 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 57009-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57009.165987640018178 (code B ref 57009); Sun, 07 Aug 2022 12:47:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57009) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2022 12:46:40 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36139 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKfg0-0004j8-Aq for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:46:40 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]:56616) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKffx-0004iv-So for 57009@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 08:46:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:Date:References: In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=010njvpI1qu3oyF7fJjZMKCXvFg7f8cbAka0OI9om8A=; b=CjyK79QxIGgxeM/wp88DtBpCnC 9LubTUqSxgsdEIdUHps+ubHz03AKS7Nf2C5NZxpGvNozgrnvqueHyP55uPk1qNuo7Z16enlQgFBfX i8sutc5/ZcK/NnFWnDAMVGrUAo9qgQcq+qxUi09YzCxVCs0VOgwSZKHt5yVcIwahjomY=; Original-Received: from [84.212.220.105] (helo=joga) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKffo-0006VO-B0; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:46:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sat, 6 Aug 2022 14:32:11 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:239048 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Say the chunk is 64 characters long. Doesn't parse-partial-sexp process > that "as a chunk" anyway? How does one determine where a "chunk" starts > and where it ends? What does "treating a line as a chunk" do that is new > that we didn't do before? I interpret that as saying that the line is split into chunks (of the length the variable says) and processed one after the other. > It is anything but self-evident. It might be by setting the variable to > 0, it might be by setting it to nil, it might be, as you suggest by > setting it to a larger size than you think will occur in practice (i.e. > there's no way to disable it). All these ways are in use in Emacs. Yes, that's true.