Re: Lifting all buffer restrictions in indentation functions

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 12/9/17 12:40 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> Since MMM needs to change the buffer bounds, why can't it just disregard
> the current bounds, instead of relying on the caller to widen first?

I does. But it'll have to rely on indent-line-function, subsequently, 
not calling widen.

So some other piece of code that runs earlier, has to call widen 
instead. That's not for MMM's benefit, but for the common user who 
narrows interactively.