Adaptive fill question

Adaptive fill question

[Richard Bourgon]

Quick question: 

In text mode with autofill on, if I start a paragraph like this...

   1. Blah blah blah blah.

...and get to the fill column, it wraps around and starts a new line: 

   1. Blah blah blah blah. The text
   1. gets wrapped like this. Annoying!

How can I stop this behavior and instead get Emacs to (i) indent under the 
"Blah" but (ii) prepend spaces rather than "1. "?

adaptive-fill-regexp is set to

    [ 	]*(?[0-9]+[.)][ 	]*

and adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp is currently empty. (The square braces 
contain a space and a tab.)

Thanks in advance,

Richard 

Re: Adaptive fill question

[Stefan Monnier]

> How can I stop this behavior

That's not the behavior I see here.  Could you tell us which version
of Emacs you're using, in which mode ?

> and instead get Emacs to (i) indent under the 
> "Blah" but (ii) prepend spaces rather than "1. "?

That's the behavior I already see in Emacs-21.2.

> adaptive-fill-regexp is set to
>     [ 	]*(?[0-9]+[.)][ 	]*

Mine has more stuff in it (by default), but nothing relevant.

> and adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp is currently empty. (The square braces
> contain a space and a tab.)

What do you mean empty?  Like ""?


        Stefan

RE: Adaptive fill question

[Bingham, Jay]

In a message dated: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:54 PM Richard Bourgon
wrote:

>...and get to the fill column, it wraps around and starts a new line: 
>
>   1. Blah blah blah blah. The text
>   1. gets wrapped like this. Annoying!
>
>How can I stop this behavior and instead get Emacs to (i) indent under
the 
>"Blah" but (ii) prepend spaces rather than "1. "?

It is highly likely that the cause of the pre-pended "1. " is that the
fill prefix has been set, (see information on the set-fill-prefix
command).  If you did not set it overtly (which I suspect since you
probably would not be asking the question if you had) it may get set as
a feature of some mode that you are running.

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RE: Adaptive fill question

[Richard Bourgon]

Thanks for your replies so far. 

Following up on suggestions/questions, I checked the fill-prefix variable 
and it is nil -- so that's not the problem. I am using Emacs 21.2 in text 
mode ("M-x text-mode").

My understanding is that paragraphs whose start matches the adaptive-fill-
regexp will have the matching string carried into subsequent lines when 
lines get wrapped, provided that this string also matches the adaptive-
fill-first-line-regexp. If the matched string fails to match adaptive-fill-
first-line-regexp, then it gets replaced with white space in subsequent 
lines, so you get a nice hanging indent for your paragraph number.

My adaptive-fill-regexp is detecting paragraph numbers, but for some reason 
I'm getting these numbers wrapped into the subsequent line as well.

- Richard