Re: fill-paragraph ill designed

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

No, I can't point at it. I spoke in the subjunctive, i.e., IMO it would be 
the right thing to do for fill-region but currently it works differently.


On August 26, 2015 18:46:23 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> wrote:

>
> Am 26.08.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Tassilo Horn:
>> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>>
>>>>>> There is a lot of ugliness in the way fill-paragraph works, but
>>>>>> developing a replacement that works ok in practice is harder than it
>>>>>> looks.  I recall a time that we tried.
>>>>> What would prevent switching the clauses as suggested?
>>>> IMO, it makes completely sense that `fill-paragraph' delegates to
>>>> `fill-region' if the region is active so that not every mode-specific
>>>> `fill-paragraph-function' has to do that on its own.
>>> Let's assume region is up to or inside a documentation-string in
>>> Python.
>>>
>>> Then fill-region will be called instead of fill-paragraph-function.
>>>
>>> But how should fill-region get access or know about Python docu-string
>>> styles?
>> `fill-region' would utilize `fill-forward-paragraph-function' to move
>> over the paragraphs in that region
>
> okay
>
>>   and call `fill-paragraph-function' on
>> them.
>
> Can't see that. May you point me at?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
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