From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `texinfo-format-buffer' doesn't fold long lines Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:36:01 +0200 Message-ID: <01c51e18$Blat.v2.4$512429a0@zahav.net.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109652884 29717 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 04:54:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 04:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 05:54:43 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5zP3-0001Xh-Em for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:54:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5zhX-0006Xc-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:13:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5zfN-0004ra-Hi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:11:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D5zfE-0004mm-GW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D5zfB-0004iS-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D5zA0-0007Td-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-84-228-249-66.inter.net.il [84.228.249.66]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AQJ27952 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:37:39 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Katsumi Yamaoka X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: (message from Katsumi Yamaoka on Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:57:07 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33961 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33961 > Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:57:07 +0900 > From: Katsumi Yamaoka > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > ... I don't think this fix should be used as is. > > > Evidentally, back in November 2001, a user in FSF India could not > > format the then new edition of `emacs-lisp-intro.texi' using > > `texinfo-format-buffer' because `texinfmt.el' created the bad line > > > @end itemize@refill > > > He was using a Microsoft operating system and thought (erroneously, > > according to Eli Zaretskii) that `makeinfo' had not yet been ported. > > That is why he was using the deprecated `texinfo-format-buffer' > > command. > > > In any event, I completely forgot about it. > > I see, and I will have to keep in mind that there might still be > need to fix the `@end itemize@refill' problem. I'd rather not have us fix a problem by reintroducing another problem that we fixed in the past. Isn't there another way to solve both of them at once? > Probably, what makeinfo should do first will be to decode text, > before formatting them. And the means to know the coding system > which is used to decode text will be necessary. There's already such a means: the @documentencoding directive. What is missing is support for multibyte encodings.