From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adam Doppelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the amazing (and amazingly old) filladapt mode Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:03:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <0jvceslfbx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349215411 26509 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2012 22:03:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 22:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 00:03:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJAYg-0004M0-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:03:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJAYa-00077r-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:03:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34685) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJAYY-00077a-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJAYX-00012P-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ob0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:36744) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJAYX-00012I-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:03:09 -0400 Original-Received: by obcva7 with SMTP id va7so7540409obc.0 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=4FT1F9eBSRtADw5qEdgPIUsatfBTPwtEWi/394wfdOE=; b=RRvulgzJjgzvPCshAYHi6EUkSndY8MUzR1xkdc3X+93SvrGcRH6LKg+COsNGp+VNba N+tmH52yclCSI20cNM1wnLt/OXIgnN9wqY0xr2GzD3KswnO09773g/ifmdiVlPJmCvB5 J168mAbgL9Jbt9TUnOCwvwI4pSdwcbII2/bFwqPlPtJvqWORDOqar9TP/4V1Zxk6WqQx fm9gbsEsYz3/5TOz8JmkspSkRTfRVwec4ML3HQPQ9q1pkomC5t0xJbZ5ELO5QRe6ZvmJ Xcj69LRD/kmr39Lq/7xGWhY39IHH5dmZ4KujIBaF2jrYc467jcCE/N87rnZFskcbguru P18g== Original-Received: by 10.182.164.103 with SMTP id yp7mr109330obb.26.1349215388853; Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.76.24.197 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Oct 2012 15:03:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0jvceslfbx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkXepxvaz5+u1Ns2co2gc4TsDXq/qXgYanfDCUsW0vP8+84bSRbjMDoFUob9st9DPmGnJNF X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:153965 Archived-At: I don't know the back story here so please forgive my ignorance. Would it help if I reached out to Kyle directly? I'd love to see it updated, maintained and (maybe) even rolled into emacs. Or I can just write up some thoughts regarding adaptive-fill-mode and file a bug, if that would inspire someone to take it on. Adam On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > Adam Doppelt wrote: > >> I'm wondering if some kind soul would like to modernize it and add it >> to elpa, or possibly bring the equivalent functionality to >> adaptive-fill-mode. > > I suspect the copyright assignment issue is likely to prevent this. > > It's probably better to make bug reports describing specific instances > of how you feel the current fill code is lacking.