Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.84; previews and longlines-mode

[David Kastrup]

David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30 Nov 2007, at 12:30, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Anyway, longlines-mode is a bad idea in conjunction with TeX since
>> TeX has a built-in line-length limit.
>
> What is it?

Depends on the change file settings.  The default for a pristine TeX
source without any changes is 500.  It is one of those settings which
get pushed to somewhere else by distributions for pretty much every
release.

> I just made a line with around 160,000 characters, which is about 50
> pages formatted. ( pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2, run-off-the-mill from
> darwinports.)

Seems like somebody pushed this setting a bit...

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