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bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: bug#56393: Actually fix the long lines display bug
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 05:39:24 +0000



Why just "added"? Deletion of characters can also create long lines, if the deleted characters are newlines.


Indeed, somehow I missed that possibility. I think a better heuristic would be: if more than one character was added or removed from the buffer, check whether the buffer contains long lines. I want to avoid affecting normal typing as much as possible, even if the effect is small.


Also, what if since last redisplay N characters were deleted and N other characters were added?


You mean for example M-% C-j RET SPC RET? Indeed, that's yet another possibility.


And that's on top of the main reason: BUF_CHARS_MODIFF exists for a long time, so introducing yet another similar counter sounds like not the best idea to me.


To be honest, I don't really understand the purpose of BUF_CHARS_MODIFF. As the comment in buffer.h explains: "It is set to modiff for each such event, and never otherwise changed." So it doesn't contain new information. And it's inconvenient that you have to keep a copy of its previous value around, using MODIFIED != UNCHANGED_MODIFIED as I did earlier is much easier.





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