From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: fill-paragraph from elisp Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1e855312-d62b-4385-89a9-c778e88b6e03@default> References: <87iojqpmic.fsf@ithaka.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413055000 12864 80.91.229.3 (11 Oct 2014 19:16:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:16:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Eike Kettner , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 11 21:16:33 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd29Y-0008FL-Sy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:16:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd29Y-0004Lj-Cy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44285) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd29F-0004Lc-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:16:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd294-0006yE-Ng for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:16:13 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:45899) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xd294-0006y7-Hr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s9BJG0Tw021756 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:16:01 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9BJFxjM007135 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:16:00 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s9BJFxYa010081; Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:15:59 GMT In-Reply-To: <87iojqpmic.fsf@ithaka.home> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100433 Archived-At: > (let ((beg (point))) > (insert descr) > (set-mark beg) > (fill-paragraph nil t) > (set-mark nil)) >=20 > What is the idiomatic way to achieve this? Use `narrow-to-region' to operate on the text between two positions.