From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
51051@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51051: Restore longlines.el to non-obsolete status
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:16:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkhEOm3GmEPMsmnycjZq=121xoGj3UGmDyMga65QNLhAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmsiecfu.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:21:09 +0200")
unarchive 18589
reopen 18589
forcemerge 18589 51051
tags 18589 - notabug
thanks
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
>
>> As longlines.el is still valuable for reasons unrelated to
>> visual-line-mode, I'd like it to be restored to non-obsolete
>> status.
>
> I think that makes sense. Does anybody else object?
There was a previous discussion in Bug#18589 (now merged):
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18589
It seems like Stefan Monnier's take was this:
> Recently someone pointed out that using longlines-mode in a buffer that
> contain *very* long lines makes it possible to view&edit the buffer
> without suffering unbearable performance problems. So maybe in this
> sense it's not completely obsolete.
And:
> I wouldn't mind de-obsoleting it.
The last message in Bug#18589 links here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-12/msg00475.html
(I'm copying in Stefan and Glenn, in case they have something to add.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-06 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-06 1:36 bug#51051: Restore longlines.el to non-obsolete status Phil Sainty
2021-10-06 9:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-06 23:16 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
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2014-09-30 9:57 bug#18589: Why is the the longlines package obsolete? bruce.connor.am
2014-09-30 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-07-02 15:33 ` bug#51051: Restore longlines.el to non-obsolete status Lars Ingebrigtsen
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