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: find longest lines during isearch Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:46:01 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87ejc8ytlw.fsf@catnip.gol.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 1201139216 27511 80.91.229.12 (24 Jan 2008 01:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: "Miles Bader" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 24 02:47:14 2008 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 1JHrBL-0008UH-Hc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jan 2008 02:47:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrAv-0003kY-Fv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrAq-0003iD-T4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrAo-0003gJ-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHrAo-0003gG-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHrAk-0005X4-Cw; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:46:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m0O1kRrF022772; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:46:28 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m0O1kQW3028308; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:46:26 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-67-90.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3533487701201139150; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:45:50 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <87ejc8ytlw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:87420 Archived-At: > _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.