From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is the so-long package still needed currently? Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:24:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83leieubrt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o7naucqy.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19592"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 13:24:26 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1prdG6-0004us-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:24:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prdFb-0006x1-HA; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prdFZ-0006wX-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prdFZ-0003y1-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:23:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=h9IgO6OgUQAptCUw9KvrK8BTvoGOaSyzbNS5+zXs0oE=; b=O8L/gHwN3SnC7xGXcEzt BdNPEe7Ga8M9mTqxlTPgrsBFVi8YZqevEMc/a9dLtyTNX+l3zic/C0ZhlNa2cztwI4SaAo9EZbe7q rheIIl9dO8jRCwWTLU3vPoamH2d9G+OgQOPAswdkpg7R/P0NPJK54qTlpoG68U8rVG8oRuC9fk6ny T9xg1sFwC/hfTjeluSiCPew55o+aEGBGf3lOk1Raz8BR7a+AIy++Z7xahWODZaAam8Rlnk1G35swD yeOgg4URfRLKjxt/JLHcHj2/ZFVdDMDxNQgpmP8+Me2h0Bu7Q1ETTWsMwT75NCeGNHSkXgeKwDSQ7 GjGP1wXGVvJgdg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prdFY-0006b3-4D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:23:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Hongyi Zhao on Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:16:41 +0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:143393 Archived-At: > From: Hongyi Zhao > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 19:16:41 +0800 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 7:04 PM Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > But I'm not sure whether the feature in Emacs by default has already > > > capable to do all the works currently. Any tips will be appreciated. > > > > Emacs 29 is supposed to fix the problem with very long lines, but > > Emacs 29 was not yet released, and so we don't yet have enough data > > points to decide that so-long-mode is no longer necessary. > > I use the lasted git master version of Emacs: > > GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.34, > cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-01-24 > > > IOW, "the jury is still out" on this issue. > > Then, what about my situation? As I said: we don't yet know the answer. You can try not using so-long-mode, but I don't have any specific recommendation for you yet. It is up to you.