Re: [Emacs-diffs] scratch/widen-less a4ba846: Replace prog-widen with consolidating widen calls

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:59:45 +0200
> 
> On 12/9/17 5:43 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If a particular indent-line-function needs to widen, then yes, it will
> > need to do that by itself, and if that gets in the way of MMM, then
> > the widening will have to be conditional.
> 
> That sounds surprisingly more complex than the whole solution that I'm 
> proposing.

I'm surprised that you think this to be so much more complex.

But in any case, this is the subject of a separate thread now, so I
suggest to discuss there, to avoid people who are interested missing
this.

> > (I thought that prog-widen and prog-indentation-context were a means
> > to solve this, isn't that so?)
> 
> It was one of the goals, but that approach comes with certain inherent, 
> as well as certain incidental, drawbacks.

It looks sufficiently lightweight to me, so I hope the drawbacks are
not unbearable.