From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Miles Bader" <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: find longest lines during isearch
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:46:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BNELLINCGFJLDJIKDGACEEOACGAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejc8ytlw.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> _Why_ do you use it, just out of curiousity?
>
> [I mean, what situation are you in where knowing the long line in a file
> is an operation you need to do several times a day...?]
It doesn't matter. If you can't imagine using it, then it's probably not
useful for you. If you don't see the utility, then don't add it.
FWIW, I didn't expect to use it that much when I wrote it, but it turns out
that I do, for various reasons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 0:00 find longest lines during isearch Drew Adams
2008-01-24 0:06 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-24 1:46 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-01-24 2:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-24 0:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-01-24 1:38 ` Drew Adams
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