From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-fill in message mode filling with prefix "> " Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:20:24 +0000 Message-ID: <87lgheheyf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87608jbugn.fsf@127.0.0.1> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515010742 13765 195.159.176.226 (3 Jan 2018 20:19:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:19:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 03 21:18:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpV3-00039S-7G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpX0-0002ba-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:20:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40621) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpWa-0002bC-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpWV-0004YS-Ut for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.7]:55360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWpWV-0004Vh-Dq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:20:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp01.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CBC93C0014 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 28018 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2018 20:20:24 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.88.156]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 3 Jan 2018 20:20:24 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87608jbugn.fsf@127.0.0.1> (message from HASM on Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:29:44 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 81.17.249.7 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115553 Archived-At: HASM writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >>> Maybe use the old filladapt (worked great on XEmacs) while those bugs >>> get fixed. > >> For the moment, I have turned off auto-fill and simply fill the >> paragraphs when I'm done. Paragraph filling seems to work just fine. > > Emacs filling is different from filladapt in one annoying way, even > running with -Q thus probably not my setup. > > If you type something like > > line1 word1 word2 > indentedLine2 word1 word2 > line3 word1 word2 > > and then, with the cursor anywhere on line3, invoke fill-paragrah, you > end up with: > > line1 word1 word2 indentedLine2 word1 word2 line3 word1 word2 > > whereas, filladapt leaves it as displayed. And yes, emacs auto-fill > also doesn't handle line tags properly. If you want indented paragraphs then you can use paragraph-indent-text-mode or paragraph-indent-minor-mode. That will make fill-paragraph behave itself in this case. However, AFAIK, out-of-the-box Emacs provides no way to deal with both types of paragraphs in one buffer. You have to pick either space separated paragraphs or indented paragraphs. BR, Robert Thorpe