fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Markus Dehmann]

The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.

If I am in text-mode and I type
(1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    blah blah blah
    (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah

and fill-paragraph will change it to this:
(1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    blah blah blah (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    blah blah blah blah blah

But of course I want the correct indentation instead:
(1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    blah blah blah
    (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah
          blah

How can I do that? Can I modify the fill-paragraph function so that it
understands hierarchical indentations? My emacs version on the Mac
does it, so there obviously is a way to get it.

Thanks,
Markus

Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Xah Lee]

On Feb 5, 8:32 am, Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
> some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.
>
> If I am in text-mode and I type
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah
>     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah
>
> and fill-paragraph will change it to this:
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah blah blah
>
> But of course I want the correct indentation instead:
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah
>     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah
>           blah
>
> How can I do that? Can I modify the fill-paragraph function so that it
> understands hierarchical indentations?

Basically no, you'll have to write your own, which should be very
easy. Prob 30 min to 1h for me.

> My emacs version on the Mac
> does it

aquaemacs or carbon emacs? what version? I can't reproduce it.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Markus Dehmann]

On Feb 5, 9:25 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 5, 8:32 am, Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
> > some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.
>
> > If I am in text-mode and I type
> > (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> >     blah blah blah
> >     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> > blah blah
>
> > and fill-paragraph will change it to this:
> > (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> >     blah blah blah (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> >     blah blah blah blah blah
>
> > But of course I want the correct indentation instead:
> > (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> >     blah blah blah
> >     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> > blah
> >           blah
>
> > How can I do that? Can I modify the fill-paragraph function so that it
> > understands hierarchical indentations?
>
> Basically no, you'll have to write your own, which should be very
> easy. Prob 30 min to 1h for me.
>
> > My emacs version on the Mac
> > does it
>
> aquaemacs or carbon emacs? what version? I can't reproduce it.

Emacs, 22.2.50.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0

Well actually, it *almost* works on the Mac version: It works fine
with stars, or with (1), (2), etc:

(1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
    (2) foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
        foo foo foo foo foo foo foo

The indentation is correct here on my Mac. But my linux emacs does the
stupid thing instead.

With things like (1.1), which I used in my original post, my Mac Emacs
version fails as well.

So, if I like the fill-paragraph behavior on my Mac Emacs better, can
I just try to locate a fill-paragraph.el file and copy it over to my
linux emacs? Or how should I proceed?

Thanks
Markus

Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Xah Lee]

On Feb 5, 7:02 pm, Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > aquaemacs or carbon emacs? what version? I can't reproduce it.
>
> Emacs, 22.2.50.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0
>
> Well actually, it *almost* works on the Mac version: It works fine
> with stars, or with (1), (2), etc:
>
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     (2) foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
>         foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
>
> The indentation is correct here on my Mac. But my linux emacs does the
> stupid thing instead.
>
> With things like (1.1), which I used in my original post, my Mac Emacs
> version fails as well.

i cannot reproduce the behavior on the mac. I'm on
GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of
2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp

though, newsgroup reformat things so maybe we don't have the same
input...

> So, if I like the fill-paragraph behavior on my Mac Emacs better, can
> I just try to locate a fill-paragraph.el file and copy it over to my
> linux emacs? Or how should I proceed?

yes, that'll probably work, or copy the whole file fill-paragraph.el
is in. Be sure to byte-compile it or delete the .elc file.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Andreas Politz]

Markus Dehmann wrote:
> On Feb 5, 9:25 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 5, 8:32 am, Markus Dehmann <markus.dehm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
>>> some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.
>>> If I am in text-mode and I type
>>> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>>     blah blah blah
>>>     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>> blah blah
>>> and fill-paragraph will change it to this:
>>> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>>     blah blah blah (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>>     blah blah blah blah blah
>>> But of course I want the correct indentation instead:
>>> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>>     blah blah blah
>>>     (1.1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>>> blah
>>>           blah
>>> How can I do that? Can I modify the fill-paragraph function so that it
>>> understands hierarchical indentations?
>> Basically no, you'll have to write your own, which should be very
>> easy. Prob 30 min to 1h for me.
>>
>>> My emacs version on the Mac
>>> does it
>> aquaemacs or carbon emacs? what version? I can't reproduce it.
> 
> Emacs, 22.2.50.1, Carbon Version 1.6.0
> 
> Well actually, it *almost* works on the Mac version: It works fine
> with stars, or with (1), (2), etc:
> 
> (1) blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
>     (2) foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
>         foo foo foo foo foo foo foo
> 
> The indentation is correct here on my Mac. But my linux emacs does the
> stupid thing instead.
> 
> With things like (1.1), which I used in my original post, my Mac Emacs
> version fails as well.
> 
Your Mac Emacs has probably filladapt-mode installed and activated.

-ap
> So, if I like the fill-paragraph behavior on my Mac Emacs better, can
> I just try to locate a fill-paragraph.el file and copy it over to my
> linux emacs? Or how should I proceed?
> 
> Thanks
> Markus

Re: fill-paragraph: multi-level indentations / enumerations?

[Phil Hudson]

Markus Dehmann <markus.dehmann <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The fill-paragraph function in my emacs 21.4.1 (on linux) is missing
> some basic understanding of multi-level indentations or enumerations.

Is it possible/convenient for you to use org mode, not text mode? That will give
you everything you need for structured outline writing, plus lots more, with no
programming and minimal configuration.