From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Daniel R. Anderson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-fill... eh Date: 05 Apr 2003 05:44:16 +0000 Organization: www.mathjunkies.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1049521456.20747.0.camel@ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net> References: Reply-To: dan@mathjunkies.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049539680 1095 80.91.224.249 (5 Apr 2003 10:48:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:48:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 05 12:47:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 191lDL-0000HS-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 12:47:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191lD8-00040l-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 05:47:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191lCo-0003wI-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 05:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 191lC6-0003Ci-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 05:46:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.246.36.112] (helo=torre.pghoster.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191lAy-0002hX-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 05:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net (ny-chicagost2d-72.buf.adelphia.net [24.49.119.72]) (authenticated) by torre.pghoster.com (8.11.6p2/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h35AjLI25832; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 04:45:21 -0600 Original-To: John Russell In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2-3mdk X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8189 for anybody who codes emacs taking a poll, that includes me too. and for the record I think tabs are cool. On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 06:29, John Russell wrote: > Quote from the emacs manual > > Auto Fill mode does not refill entire paragraphs; it can break > lines but cannot merge lines. So editing in the middle of a paragraph > can result in a paragraph that is not correctly filled. The easiest > way to make the paragraph properly filled again is usually with the > explicit fill commands. See *Note Fill Commands::. > > > This kinda bothers me. I really want auto-fill to behave the way it > does in every other program. eg if you go back to the middle of a > paragraph and start typing, I would like it to fill correctly. See > the Mozilla Mail client for an example of the behavior I mean. I'm > sure there are others but that's what sprang to mind. > > I am so so at lisp but I wanted to ask if anyone else had done this > or knew how before I blew the cobwebs off the lisp part of my brain. > Thanks. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs