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

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

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