Re: [AUCTeX] New release on Friday?

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi David,

2015-11-04 11:13 GMT+01:00 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> 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".

Bye,
Mosè