From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie to Emacs-Lisp: Using the fill-paragraph function
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:28:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uveflxy1f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee635b9d0704241420o4bd9904ftcdd446486a663535@mail.gmail.com> (taylor.jones@gmail.com)
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:20:36 -0700
> From: "Taylor Jones" <taylor.jones@gmail.com>
>
> (if (> (length return) 0)
> (progn
> (insert " *\n")
> (insert " * @return ")
> (insert return)
> (insert "\n")
> (fill-paragraph))
> )
>
> As you can see, after I insert the " * @return <description of return
> value>" I want to use the fill-paragraph function, just as I would do if I
> were manually typing the line and using the M-q keybinding. When the
> fill-parargraph function runs, I get an error message "wrong number of
> arguments" and a bunch of gibberish.
Did you see in "C-h f" that fill-parargraph requires an argument? You
need to supply it, otherwise Emacs will rightfully complain.
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2007-04-24 21:20 Newbie to Emacs-Lisp: Using the fill-paragraph function Taylor Jones
2007-04-24 21:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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