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From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-store/insert-link truncating the full subject of mails
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 12:43:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg6j3c21.fsf@portable.galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhuzd9ih.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Sat, 27 Oct 2018 11:27:50 +0200")

Le 27/10/2018 à 11h27, Nicolas Goaziou a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Can you please elaborate on what you mean by being on the safe
>> side in this context?  What problems could potentially arise from
>> returning the subject in full length?
>
> I don't know. This is why I agree it is safer to limit length to an
> arbitrary number instead of allowing any size.

Without justification, that’d look like “argument from ignorance”, so
unless a real reason is found, I believe it would be better to remove a
truncation that will very certainly in fact bother at least some users
(while there’s still 0 data point on how non-truncation might be
bothering, and that’s what being asked).

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-27 10:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-26  5:30 org-store/insert-link truncating the full subject of mails Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-26 15:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-26 15:42   ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-26 19:54     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-26 23:22       ` Amin Bandali
2018-10-27  9:27         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-27 10:43           ` Garreau, Alexandre [this message]
2018-10-27 11:55             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-28  4:49               ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-11-02  0:55                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-10-28  4:49               ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-28 14:05           ` Amin Bandali
2018-10-28 17:01             ` Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-28 19:23             ` org-email-link-description-format (Was: Re: org-store/insert-link truncating the full subject of mails) Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-29  7:30       ` org-store/insert-link truncating the full subject of mails Eric S Fraga
2018-10-30 15:42         ` Nick Dokos

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