From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Longlines mode in menu Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: <87prqwqc42.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87wsl41lq0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212680280 27074 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2008 15:38:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 15:38:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 17:38:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4HXW-00089a-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:38:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54124 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4HWd-00033A-7H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:37:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4HWD-0002sK-HF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K4HW9-0002qm-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45289 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4HW9-0002qj-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:36:45 -0400 Original-Received: from c-98-216-111-182.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.216.111.182]:11026 helo=furry) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4HW0-0003TD-Tc; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AE6CC055; Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:50:53 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:53:22 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:98466 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Chong Yidong writes: >> Someone just suggested to me that Longlines mode should have an entry in >> the Options menu of the menu-bar. This seems reasonable to me: new >> users are likely to come across situations where Longlines mode is >> necessary, but not know of its existence. Windows notepad has had such >> an item in its menu for a while. > > Is longlines-mode more or less guaranteed to restore the buffer contents > properly when being disabled? [I vaguely recall problems with > longlines-mode occassionally trashing the buffer in the past, but a long > time ago.] I know of only one failure case (reported by you, IIRC): in text containing no spaces like Japanese, extra spaces might be inserted in some circumstances. Longlines does exactly the same thing here as auto-fill-mode. As far as I know, no one else has reported that problem. But I'll take another look at it.