Re: master 616da8fa8e: Merge branch 'feature/fix-the-long-lines-display-bug'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:50:41 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >> Then why is it a number and not a boolean? A number that I don't know 
> >> how to change is as good as a constant.
> >
> > If we decide that there's no reason for users to change the number, we 
> > might consider making it a boolean, indeed.
> >
> 
> Not a boolean, because even if there is no reason for users to change the 
> number, there are at least three useful values: always disabled, enabled 
> iff the buffer contains long lines, always enabled.  Which you can get now 
> by setting the variable to nil, 10000, and 0.

A tristate is also a possibility.

> I'm also pretty sure we would have bug reports if what a "long line" is 
> was hardcoded.  So from my point of view the variable is fine as it is.

I didn't say it wasn't, just that we might revisit this when the we
have more feedback and data points.