Re: Variable pitch mode line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com,  tsdh@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  juri@linkov.net
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:32:46 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Really?  At least when I read email, HTML formatted messages take a
> > significant time to display, sometimes several seconds (with quite a
> > few GC cycles while at that).  Redisplay with word-wrap will take much
> > less, and will not trigger any GC.
> 
> Have you profiled shr to confirm that it's the line wrapping that takes
> time?  In my experience, whenever eww is slow, it's because there's a
> <table> in the page.
> 
> > So why do you say it won't make any difference?
> 
> An info node is so small that it can't possibly make any difference.

OK, then I guess a feature whereby we can disable word-wrap in a
region of text won't be needed after all.