Re: [AUCTeX] New release on Friday?

[Mosè Giordano]

2015-11-04 13:45 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2015-11-04 11:13 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> 2015-11-04 10:27 GMT+01:00 Uwe Siart <address@hidden>:
>>>>> On 4 Nov 2015 at 10:07, Mosè Giordano wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> any objection against releasing a new version of AUCTeX by the end of
>>>>>> this week, for example on Friday?  AUCTeX 11.88.9 has been released to
>>>>>> ELPA two weeks ago and no one lamented havoc so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> No objection from me as a (frenetic) user :-) I saw lots of beneficial
>>>>> enhancements in the changelog and I'll be very pleased about 11.89.
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: No problems here with 11.88.9 (except the default of
>>>>> LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators, which has been changed, I think).
>>>>
>>>> Yes, now the default is nil.
>>>
>>> What was the rationale for that change?  preview-latex looks rather bad
>>> when line breaks are put into math rather than outside.  And breaking
>>> inline math across lines gratuitously does not help legibility either.
>>>
>>> So I'd be interested in the rationale: the whole
>>> LaTeX-fill-break-at-separators machinery was created because there was a
>>> need for it in order to have documents maintain well under filling.  So
>>> it seems weird to disable it by default, making it mostly accessible to
>>> experts (namely avid manual readers and customizers) rather than people
>>> who prefer to have things "just work" out of the box.
>>
>> There was a thread in [AUCTeX] mailling list, "11.88.9 and
>> fill-paragraph oddness".
>
> Seriously?  There is a bug report for new Emacs versions' fill
> functionality, and the reaction is to just disable the functionality
> rather than address the problem?  Without any discussion?

The thread was open but no one explained why the previous value was
better than nil, there wasn't much to discuss.  Frankly, reading the
code it wasn't clear it is useful for preview-latex, now we know it.
I usually don't have strong opinions on default values, as long as I
can change in my init file a variable that's fine with me.

Bye,
Mosè