Re: [AUCTeX] New release on Friday?

[David Kastrup]

Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Uwe,
>
> 2015-11-04 10:27 GMT+01:00 Uwe Siart <address@hidden>:
>> On 4 Nov 2015 at 10:07, Mosè Giordano wrote:
>>
>>> any objection against releasing a new version of AUCTeX by the end of
>>> this week, for example on Friday?  AUCTeX 11.88.9 has been released to
>>> ELPA two weeks ago and no one lamented havoc so far.
>>
>> No objection from me as a (frenetic) user :-) I saw lots of beneficial
>> enhancements in the changelog and I'll be very pleased about 11.89.
>>
>> PS: No problems here with 11.88.9 (except the default of
>> LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators, which has been changed, I think).
>
> Yes, now the default is nil.

What was the rationale for that change?  preview-latex looks rather bad
when line breaks are put into math rather than outside.  And breaking
inline math across lines gratuitously does not help legibility either.

So I'd be interested in the rationale: the whole
LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators machinery was created because there was a
need for it in order to have documents maintain well under filling.  So
it seems weird to disable it by default, making it mostly accessible to
experts (namely avid manual readers and customizers) rather than people
who prefer to have things "just work" out of the box.

-- 
David Kastrup