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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill-paragraph with pre and postfix
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 14:45:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fz9ugu1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA6UvuHH=Gtr6vFZfrT3riqDRjP9ap=OQaNC9ahQ4gE33hLPfw@mail.gmail.com>


Jacob Gerlach writes:

> On Nov 5, 2014 6:42 AM, "Alexis" <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Jacob Gerlach writes:
>>
>> > A project I'm working on uses a handling function for some command line
>> > documentation:
>> >
>> >   blk("  I want to format my documentation like this.
> ");
>> >
>> > In order to match the convention for our project, it should include the
> two
>> > leading spaces and be filled with spaces out to column 70.
>>
>> Will the text that gets padded with spaces always be less than 70
>> columns in total?
>
> No, the idea is to use this function on a paragraph of text and have it
> broken into appropriately sized lines and then wrapped with the format
> function. Something akin to fill paragraph.

*nod* So you'd want output along the lines of:

    blk("  I want to format my documentation like this.                        \nI want to format my documentation like this. I want to format my      \ndocumentation like this.                                              ")

?

(Or should /each/ 70-column line be wrapped with  'blk("")'?)


Alexis.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-06  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-05  3:00 fill-paragraph with pre and postfix Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-05 11:34 ` Alexis
     [not found]   ` <CAA6UvuGBeVzLqqvzY5E8DX7kuMtRiJBuP6-AORsrjPR1uuxTtg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-05 12:18     ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-06  3:45       ` Alexis [this message]
2014-11-10 15:24         ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-11  0:19           ` Alexis
     [not found]             ` <CAA6UvuEQYgVUkgWD_MkU_mnjYVt6PSXA72RSe9S2YOJmxnNOUg@mail.gmail.com>
2014-11-11  8:26               ` Alexis
2014-11-24 19:26                 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-11-26  8:48                   ` Alexis

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