Re: Performance degradation from long lines

[Stefan Monnier]

>> As for such settings in people's .emacs, my educated guess is that they
>> date back to Emacs-23's introduction to work around problems in specific
>> modes that have since solved those problems (typically by setting
>> bidi-paragraph-direction).
>
> It's also suggested in the top-voted answer on how to make Emacs faster with
> long lines on emacs.stackexchange
> (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/598/how-do-i-prevent-extremely-long-lines-making-emacs-slow),
> so I'd expect many people to have it in their config for that reason.

Yes, but making it ineffective won't break their config.
It will merely make long-lines a bit slower in some cases.
And we can point to so-long for a better solution.
Nothing problematic, IMO.


        Stefan