Re: flyspell + longlines: hang/wait

[Miles Bader]

2005/11/1, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>:
> I have no tiem to get in this argument, but jsut for the record
> I completely agree.  The only reason I could see to oppose DTWW support in
> Emacs is if it makes the code significantly less maintainable, or imposes
> a significant runtime overhead even when not used.

Indeed.

I'd think a simple (?) change to the display code to allow long lines
to be wrapped at white-space would be fine.  The question in my mind
is how big the resulting fallout would be from people wanting to
modify other parts of emacs to correct any problems subsequently
revealed -- obviously you'd need some change to line-move to do
"display-based" movement instead of logical movement (but maybe this
would be a good feature to have anyway -- many users prefer this
behavior generally).

BTW, I should note that there's nothing stopping DTWW proponents from
maintaining a separate DTWW branch/patch to get more experience with
the issue (I maintain my own Emacs branches too)!  Real honest-to-god
data is a great advantage in any debate...

-miles
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