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bug#64535: 30.0.50; Spurious newlines in `prin1` output
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#64535: 30.0.50; Spurious newlines in `prin1` output |
Date: |
Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:29:54 +0300 |
> 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?