From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: C-n and C-a Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 19:11:02 -0800 Message-ID: <000601c98b2d$34e175f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <8763jotmim.fsf@jurta.org><873aerpn4y.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87vdrln48c.fsf@jurta.org><004601c98b02$28a160f0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234235488 26275 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 03:11:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:11:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Juri Linkov' , 'Chong Yidong' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "'Stefan Monnier'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 04:12:42 2009 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 1LWj39-0004J9-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:12:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWj1p-0001dT-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWj1j-0001Z5-JK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWj1h-0001Te-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60140 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWj1h-0001TU-GM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:26082 helo=rgminet12.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWj1h-0004ox-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rgminet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1A3AcPM017866 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:10:39 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt704.oracle.com (acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82]) by rgminet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n1A3B3dv012963; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:11:04 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.128.33) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:11:02 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcmLJCyXFStBJGmlQB25jYdoEf6PZQACC/qg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A09020A.4990F048.016D:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:108924 Archived-At: > >> FWIW, I think the right patch for dired would be to > >> set truncate-lines to t. > > Why? > > Why not? It uses a buffer formatted into columns, so any wrap-around > messes up the clean column layout. I have no problem with it, personally. It's good for a proposed change to be accompanied by a rationale for the change; that's all. Dired and (buffer-local) `truncate-lines' have been around nearly as long as Emacs itself. I can't think of a good reason why the value here should be nil, but perhaps someone knows why this was not changed to t before now? IOW, as you say, why not?