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 14:03:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83o7naucqy.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1053"; 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 13:05:00 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 1prcxH-000AaU-Jw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:04:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1prcwk-0004kY-Nd; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:04:26 -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 1prcwi-0004kL-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:04:24 -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 1prcwi-00082O-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:04:24 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=6soZFQcfaprVU2PiQBn/nK29T70mjjthKLr659X0FZ4=; b=gY0f6Ayi6616 h0jUje/7w4nyqFFNeHmUBL3vEomJL8Xo34ilSL88XKHTdpk8gNP2nvldJ0oaNBr/naDeYpkD1nFRF 10oR1idbC1gwjE5y/95Bq0jbUd11ZqMzEnnGyU285MPoGyrO9+TeK+tggBNQDL5Xky5YJPmJugLex VZRkYaUMwsHH7MP9wrC/CLHh97TjZd/XWK5pDDo1qnq1Lq5X+iqWT9ESIixBWpGVoILjAYSRve7Sx xvlHg7E7HVFP1GZRumNs+giuFBbtT12qGSCv3uVRU3sb76yeGOgiJW371FWBWbwK9B4UIxk6iF0Xl VVK6KU6socIdvj4cn4bRNg==; 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 1prcv9-00010h-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2023 07:02:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Hongyi Zhao on Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:47:51 +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:143391 Archived-At: > From: Hongyi Zhao > Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2023 18:47:51 +0800 > > Hi here, > > A long time ago, I've added the following configuration in my init.el file: > > ``` > ;; https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2022-03/msg00511.html > ;; https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ogbl#inbox/FMfcgzGpFqRpjCqNNHSgDgkqmXWwtLrS > (use-package so-long > :config > (setq-default so-long-action 'longlines-mode) > (setq-default longlines-show-hard-newlines t) > (global-so-long-mode +1) > ) > ``` > > 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. IOW, "the jury is still out" on this issue.