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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eike Kettner <eike.kettner@posteo.de>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: fill-paragraph from elisp
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:15:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e855312-d62b-4385-89a9-c778e88b6e03@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iojqpmic.fsf@ithaka.home>

> (let ((beg (point)))
>   (insert descr)
>   (set-mark beg)
>   (fill-paragraph nil t)
>   (set-mark nil))
> 
> What is the idiomatic way to achieve this?

Use `narrow-to-region' to operate on the text between two positions.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-11 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-11 16:55 fill-paragraph from elisp Eike Kettner
2014-10-11 19:15 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-10-11 19:52   ` Eike Kettner

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