From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:10:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87bo20fh3h.fsf@web.de> References: <871u2xf9st.fsf@gmail.com> <9jiow9uhoa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wqkopylw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383570741 17528 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 13:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15797@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 14:12:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJx6-0000Au-DC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:12:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJx5-000720-Sy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvz-0005dA-KU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvr-0005zg-Hy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:47864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvr-0005zV-Eb for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvq-0001jp-Er for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:11:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Michael Heerdegen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15797 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: notabug Original-Received: via spool by 15797-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15797.13835706256624 (code B ref 15797); Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15797) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2013 13:10:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33648 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvE-0001il-2k for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:56806) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdJvB-0001iT-EX for 15797@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([90.186.82.77]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MRUBA-1VFDUC3iie-00SfEo for <15797@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:10:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87wqkopylw.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:11:47 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:d50NDwWxq+kRZHqj+8IHIYaKqXpuh+ZTxm2lPRi80VLJvllNYfk e4QpuxfTU4BKckD0IdkSVXZdU6/nGj+goB9SURyRjyoCEO7KqA60gG9vva9jsRy9KUDe4ce ctu5rcf+RoKgICiHpAVUGYxZLO7V3vOc7I7yC72sK7Civ/vsI6bQkH8A7Zg+kNehiM2x2PC jKAPlbaK781URjahoxjnQ== X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79955 Archived-At: Jambunathan K writes: > Why is this variable in lispref. The variable deserves atleast a > mention in the main manual. A small note by a user: In my experience, line caching is a highly experimental feature. The first time I tried it - this was 2 or 3 years ago, Emacs crashed reproducably few seconds after setting the variable to non-nil in any buffer (bug 12196). Presumably nobody using Emacs used it that time. After this had been fixed, I tried to work with cache-long-line-scans non-nil, and after some minutes I found that it breaks dired (bug 15148, still not fixed). Not sure how much other problems are to be discovered. So, it's probably better not to advertise it until it works ok. I would love to use it when it worked, btw. Regards, Michael.