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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 14754@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14754: 24.3.50; `C-h v' needs to fill wide `pp' lines (493 chars wide?!)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:07:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <995fa6da-700a-4b65-9b4e-3faacca5d8f4@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22ab55c9-7ec8-4622-8bcd-f67e5a228377@default>

Sorry, but the patch I sent is no good.  Filling something that was
pretty-printed destroys pretty-printing (duh).

The problem remains.  It is that `pp' prints a flat list using a very
large width, which is inappropriate for buffer *Help* etc.

One solution might be to have a variable controlling the max width
(when possible) for pretty-printing, much as we have vars to control the
print-length etc.

> The lines in the *Help* buffer should respect `fill-column' as much as
> possible, other things being equal.
> emacs -Q
> C-h v imagemagick-enabled-types
> 
> You see the value printed on a single line that is 493 chars wide!
> That's ridiculous, and it does not play well with code that fits the
> *Help* frame or window to its buffer text etc.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-01 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-30  7:10 bug#14754: 24.3.50; `C-h v' needs to fill wide `pp' lines (493 chars wide?!) Drew Adams
2013-07-01 17:07 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-08  6:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10  3:56   ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-06-09 16:36 Drew Adams

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