bug#46859: 28.0.50; [PATCH]: Add option to truncate long lines in xref.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Here's an experimental patch that does this.
>
> As long as there are no matches near the end of the long string,
> everything seems snappy. If we do end up scrolling to near its end,
> though, moving around that line becomes slower.

I think that's a fair trade-off.  I only lightly skimmed this long
thread, but this patch was never applied?  (And it was the final message
here.)

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