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bug#57009: Obscure doc string of new variable syntax-wholeline-max
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#57009: Obscure doc string of new variable syntax-wholeline-max |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:46:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> Say the chunk is 64 characters long. Doesn't parse-partial-sexp process
> that "as a chunk" anyway? How does one determine where a "chunk" starts
> and where it ends? What does "treating a line as a chunk" do that is new
> that we didn't do before?
I interpret that as saying that the line is split into chunks (of the
length the variable says) and processed one after the other.
> It is anything but self-evident. It might be by setting the variable to
> 0, it might be by setting it to nil, it might be, as you suggest by
> setting it to a larger size than you think will occur in practice (i.e.
> there's no way to disable it). All these ways are in use in Emacs.
Yes, that's true.