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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 64535@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64535: 30.0.50; Spurious newlines in `prin1` output
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:29:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y6leiod.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwva5vyef22.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:46:28 -0400)

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 64535@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:46:28 -0400
> 
> > I can suggest another solution: remove that code, but make sure
> > long-line-threshold is reset to its default value locally in the
> > buffer where prin1 is producing its output?  Would that be more
> > acceptable?
> 
> Bug#2866 fundamentally had nothing to do with `prin1`.  It was just
> another instance of "Emacs freezes when encountering a long line".
> 
> The patch installed back then fixed the problem for one particular (and
> quite uncommon) way to end up with a long line.  There are millions more
> ways to get that result, as you know, many of them much more common.
> 
> The only thing special about Bug#2866 is that it happened to be a case
> where the long line was generated by our own code and where Handa
> bothered to write a hack that kinda worked around the problem, leaving
> all the many other ways to walk into that problem just as opened
> as before.
> 
> We now have a general way to solve the problem.  I don't think it's
> always absolutely perfect, but it's definitely good enough that we can
> get rid of this odd hack.  And those user who set `long-line-threshold`
> to nil *and* happen to reproduce just the recipe in Bug#2866 would get
> what they ask for, IMO.

Is that a "no" to my proposal above?





  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-15  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-08 19:19 bug#64535: 30.0.50; Spurious newlines in `prin1` output Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-09  5:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-13 23:11   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-14 13:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 14:46       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-07-15  7:29         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-15 15:20           ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-10 16:00         ` Gregory Heytings

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