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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: Using autofill./
Date: 05 Oct 2005 16:45:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868xx86prr.fsf@flame.pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9763.1128471558.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> you can set the fill-column to its new value (i.e. 40) and
>> refill the paragraph by hitting M-q just once:
>>
>>     * This is a test message. This is a test
>>       message. This is a test message.This is a
>>       test message. This is a test message. This
>>       is a test message. This is a test
>>       message. This is a test message.  ^^^^^^^^
>>       ^^^^^^^^
>
> Before you start giving advice on filling don't you think that you
> should first fix yours?  You might want to have a look at the
> variable "sentence-end-double-space" for example.

In what ways does my personal preference for the current setting of
sentence-end-double-space affect the correctness or the usefulness of
the advice about filling?

Keep the irony to yourself the next time, thanks...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-05 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-04 15:24 Using autofill./ Shashank Khanvilkar
2005-10-04 16:12 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-10-04 17:32 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-05  0:18   ` Neon Absentius
     [not found]   ` <mailman.9763.1128471558.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-05 13:45     ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2005-10-05 14:26       ` Neon Absentius
     [not found]       ` <mailman.9832.1128522413.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-10-05 14:56         ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-05 15:10           ` Neon Absentius
2005-10-04 17:41 ` rgb

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