Re: change in fill-paragraph

[ken <gebser@speakeasy.net>]

On 04/19/2008 09:24 PM B. T. Raven wrote:
> ken wrote:
>>
>> With the versions of emacs I've been using for years, fill-paragraph 
>> won't fill/reformat include in its definition of a paragraph any line 
>> which begins with a space.  However, the newer emacs version I use at 
>> work will.  That is,
>>
>> (1) In the older versions, this will be
>> one paragraph.  M-q will reformat it
>> fine.  I like it this way.
>>  (2) In the older versions, having just a
>> single space at the beginning
>> of a line tells paragraph-fill that this is
>> a separate paragraph.  So this would be a
>> separate paragraph.
>>  (3) In the new emacs version, all of these
>> would constitute one paragraph and so be
>> filled together.  I would much prefer the older way
>> fill-paragraph works... so that (1), (2), and (3)
>> stay where they are.
>>
>> How would I restore the old behavior to the new version of emacs?
>>
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
> 
> You can get this with
> 
> "(paragraph-indent-text-mode)
> 
> Major mode for editing text, with leading spaces starting a paragraph.
> In this mode, you do not need blank lines between paragraphs
> when the first line of the following paragraph starts with whitespace.
> `paragraph-indent-minor-mode' provides a similar facility ..."

Thanks for this, but I didn't want to change the entire mode, as the 
behavior above by fill-paragraph happens also when I'm using 
html-helper-mode, what I use for editing/creating html.  It may well 
happen in other modes also, e.g., perl-mode, c-mode... not sure, because 
I haven't tried a lot of other modes at work yet.

In brief, I just want to change the behavior of fill-paragraph back to 
what it was previously for all modes.  If paragraph-indent-minor-mode 
will do this, what would I need to put in ~/.emacs to invoke it for any 
file I might open and not have "paragraph-indent-minor-mode" show up in 
the mode line?  (My mode line already is already occupied with all it 
can accomodate.)


Again, thanks for your help.


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