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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 21:26:50 +0800
> 
> Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:
> 
> > One of the design principles of that feature is that it should be as
> > transparent as possible, and it is.  The point of adding a variable to
> > control the feature was to avoid introducing an arbitrary constant at
> > the C level, and also to allow users who really enjoy slowdowns to
> > turn these optimizations off
> 
> 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.