Unfill please!

Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

Now that we have visual-line-mode that is very good for writing text
wouldn't it be good to have unfilling too? Like the routines below?

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;; Unfilling
;;
;; The idea is from
;;   http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/emacs/sburke_dot_emacs.config

;;;###autoload
(defun unfill-paragraph ()
  "Unfill the current paragraph."
  (interactive) (with-unfilling 'fill-paragraph))
;;(defalias 'unwrap-paragraph 'unfill-paragraph)

;;;###autoload
(defun unfill-region ()
  "Unfill the current region."
  (interactive) (with-unfilling 'fill-region))
;;(defalias 'unwrap-region 'unfill-region)

;;;###autoload
(defun unfill-individual-paragraphs ()
  "Unfill individual paragraphs in the current region."
  (interactive) (with-unfilling 'fill-individual-paragraphs))
;;(defalias 'unwrap-individual-paragraphs 'unfill-individual-paragraphs)

(defun with-unfilling (fn)
  "Unfill using the fill function FN."
  (let ((fill-column 10000000)) (call-interactively fn)))

Re: Unfill please!

[Bastien]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Now that we have visual-line-mode that is very good for writing text

Just being curious: why is visual-line-mode good for writing text?

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Bastien<bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Now that we have visual-line-mode that is very good for writing text
>
> Just being curious: why is visual-line-mode good for writing text?

You do not have to re-fill it all the time...

Re: Unfill please!

[Bastien]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>> Just being curious: why is visual-line-mode good for writing text?
>
> You do not have to re-fill it all the time...

What about auto-fill-mode?  Does it not just do that? 

I don't clearly see the interaction between filling and visual-line-mode...

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Bastien<bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Just being curious: why is visual-line-mode good for writing text?
>>
>> You do not have to re-fill it all the time...
>
> What about auto-fill-mode?  Does it not just do that?

Don't know, I never tried it.


> I don't clearly see the interaction between filling and visual-line-mode...

I have a minor mode that sets margins so that the width is fill-column...

Re: Unfill please!

[Bastien]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

>> What about auto-fill-mode?  Does it not just do that?
>
> Don't know, I never tried it.

I think you should :)  It's a pretty basic minor mode that makes life
really easier.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Bastien<bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> What about auto-fill-mode?  Does it not just do that?
>>
>> Don't know, I never tried it.
>
> I think you should :)  It's a pretty basic minor mode that makes life
> really easier.


Thanks, maybe. Looking it the doc string I remember why I never used
it. It kind of wraps too late. I found M-q more practical then.

Re: Unfill please!

[Daniel Clemente]

El dc, ago 05 2009 a les 02:01, Lennart Borgman va escriure:
> Now that we have visual-line-mode that is very good for writing text
> wouldn't it be good to have unfilling too? Like the routines below?

  I think this is very valuable because unfilling is a very common operation (for me even more than filling).
  Those functions work and are easier than manual unfilling with C-u M-^ etc.

Re: Unfill please!

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Bastien<bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> What about auto-fill-mode?  Does it not just do that?
>>>
>>> Don't know, I never tried it.
>>
>> I think you should :)  It's a pretty basic minor mode that makes life
>> really easier.
>
>
> Thanks, maybe. Looking it the doc string I remember why I never used
> it. It kind of wraps too late. I found M-q more practical then.

refill-mode might help.

-- 
David Kastrup

Re: Unfill please!

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/8/5 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>:
> I have a minor mode that sets margins so that the width is fill-column...

I have been looking for something like this. Would you mind sharing it?

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/5 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>:
>> I have a minor mode that sets margins so that the width is fill-column...
>
> I have been looking for something like this. Would you mind sharing it?


It is part of nXhtml, in the file ourcomments-util. But I am currently
fighting some bugs in it. window-width seems to be buggy.

Re: Unfill please!

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Lennart
Borgman<lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/8/5 Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>:
>>> I have a minor mode that sets margins so that the width is fill-column...
>>
>> I have been looking for something like this. Would you mind sharing it?
>
>
> It is part of nXhtml, in the file ourcomments-util. But I am currently
> fighting some bugs in it. window-width seems to be buggy.


If you look in nXhtml repository in Launchpad you can find the minor
mode wrap-to-fill-column-mode in the file ourcomments-util.el. It
looks like it works ok now.

This mode does some small things that I find useful when writing text:

- Sets left and right margin so that text in displayed in the middle
of the window fill-column wide.
- Turns on visual-line-mode.
- Sets wrap-prefix so that continuation lines are indented the same
amount as the current line.