Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/widen-less a4ba846: Replace prog-widen with consolidating widen calls

[Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>]

On 12/4/17 9:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>>> Zero is not the intention: for the doc changes to be valid, we need to
>>>> add a few `widen` calls in places like indent-according-to-mode.
>>> If those calls are conditioned on MMM actually being active, then
>>> existing behavior will remain unchanged, and we are good.
>>
>> How do you propose we detect when MMM is active?
> 
> I don't know (didn't look at its sources close enough), but I'd be
> surprised if there wasn't some variable or some other method to tell.

I'm sorry, but this is some nonsense you are discussing.

The change in question fixes an old problem, namely: some major modes 
perform indentation while taking the whole buffer into account, and some 
only look at the current restriction (which would be a bug, but nobody 
has reported it yet in those cases, apparently because there is some 
correlation between users of C and Python, and users of interactive 
narrowing).

So the fix makes *all* indentation code take into account the whole 
buffer, even when interactive narrowing is in place. Unless mmm-mode, on 
something like it, applies an extra restriction through its custom 
indent-line-function.

That part of the change seems obviously correct to me, no need to 
predicate it on mmm-mode being active.