Re: master 9480169 1/2: Change the string-limit parameter semantics

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:57:26 -0500
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> 
> In my experience it's very rare to need to limit a string to
> a particular *length*.  Instead you usually want to limit it to
> a particular *width*.

More accurately, almost any code in Emacs that limits strings to some
length, actually ought to limit them to some width instead ;-)