From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: David Reitter <dreitter@inf.ed.ac.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: longlines-auto-wrap: doc string wrong, or bug?
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:21:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejlltypy.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HmzVo-00007i-V0@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 12 May 2007 17\:52\:24 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> It appears that `longlines-auto-wrap' as a variable can't be set
> directly - at least to no effect. I have to explicitly do (longlines-
> auto-wrap 0) to turn it off.
>
> I agree that the function `longlines-auto-wrap' should toggle when
> given no argument.
>
> The function `longlines-auto-wrap' seems to expect the variable to be
> buffer-local, since it wraps the current buffer in addition to setting
> the variable. Should we add a call to `make-variable-buffer-local'
> for it?
I've fixed this on the trunk.
(It's probably not important enough to check in to the branch, because
frankly turning off auto-wrap is a silly thing to do; it mostly
defeats the purpose of longlines mode. It's there primarily due to
legacy reasons.)
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2007-05-12 21:52 ` longlines-auto-wrap: doc string wrong, or bug? Richard Stallman
2007-05-12 23:21 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-05-14 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
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