Re: Longlines and insert

[Chong Yidong]

>    I think (and as far as I understood, Chong Yidong does too) that this is
>    a welcoming message for future problems.  You patch up a piece of code,
>    while there are hundreds other lisp files, many of which insert newlines,
>    some of which need to be hard.  We probably need something generic.  At
>    the very least we need a convenience function to create a newline-string
>    with the necessary properties already set, so we don't have to go over
>    the lines above each time.
>
> Doesn't (newline) insert the right kind of newline based on the value
> of `use-hard-newlines'?

`newline' does.  The problem is Lisp code that does (insert "foo\n")