From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 22:09:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739xwevbq.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mxw54c4k.fsf@linux-lqcw.site
Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
> Op woensdag 12 mei 2010 12:21 CEST, Pascal J. Bourguignon schreef:
>
>>> Is there a way to change the behaviour of fill-paragraph?
>>
>> Yes. Keep an empty line inserted between paragraphs and lists. The
>> correct way to format such text is (as testified for example by reST):
>
> That is not a change of behaviour from fill paragraph, but a change of
> layout. That works (and sometimes I use it), but the empty line is not
> always acceptable. I then use the empty line, to be removed later (what
> I sometimes forget), or work with a region. In principal better, because
> I see immediately that I messed things up. But when I do not correct ...
I think the problem here is, that it is impossible to tell the paragraph
functions, that a line like
This line ends a paragraph:
does indeed end a paragraph. There are variables `paragraph-start' and
`paragraph-separate', but not paragraph-end .
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-12 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 9:57 Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph Cecil Westerhof
2010-05-12 10:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <87mxw54c4k.fsf@linux-lqcw.site>
2010-05-12 20:09 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
[not found] ` <jwv632s3lgf.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
2010-05-13 8:23 ` Cecil Westerhof
[not found] ` <861vdhtgqs.fsf@aiuole.stru.polimi.it>
2010-05-13 8:23 ` Cecil Westerhof
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