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bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans |
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Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:56:20 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:58:55 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 15797@debbugs.gnu.org, kjambunathan@gmail.com
>
> > > BTW, when cache-long-scans t works now, is there any benefit in
> > > setting it nil?
> >
> > We will shortly turn it on by default, as you see from the rest of
> > this discussion.
>
> Only for visual-line-mode, or in general? Only when there are
> actually long lines in the buffer, or in general?
Always.
> And the question was not just about the default behavior, but
> whether there is (ever) any benefit in setting it to nil.
There's overhead of having it non-nil, but it is small, or so we
think.
> The variable is always buffer-local. If it will be on by default,
> will it ever be turned off?
When the user does that.
> I assume I can turn it off explicitly in a given buffer, but what
> else might turn it off?
Nothing.
> Also, I wonder about this part of the doc (I don't have the C
> source code to check what it really does):
>
> "If `cache-long-scans' is non-nil, these motion functions cache
> the results of their scans"
>
> That does not say that they cache only the result of scanning long
> lines. Is that correct?
Yes.
> Do they cache the result of scanning even short lines?
Yes.
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, (continued)
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/15
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, Stephen Berman, 2013/11/15
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, Andy Moreton, 2013/11/16
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/16
- bug#15841: Display bugs with cache-long-lines non-nil, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/18
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/11/06
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/06
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/11/06
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/06
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans, Drew Adams, 2013/11/06
- bug#15797: 24.3.50; Info: Mention cache-long-scans,
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