Re: fill-paragraph ill designed

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>]

Am 26.08.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Tassilo Horn:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> writes:
>
>>>>> There is a lot of ugliness in the way fill-paragraph works, but
>>>>> developing a replacement that works ok in practice is harder than it
>>>>> looks.  I recall a time that we tried.
>>>> What would prevent switching the clauses as suggested?
>>> IMO, it makes completely sense that `fill-paragraph' delegates to
>>> `fill-region' if the region is active so that not every mode-specific
>>> `fill-paragraph-function' has to do that on its own.
>> Let's assume region is up to or inside a documentation-string in
>> Python.
>>
>> Then fill-region will be called instead of fill-paragraph-function.
>>
>> But how should fill-region get access or know about Python docu-string
>> styles?
> `fill-region' would utilize `fill-forward-paragraph-function' to move
> over the paragraphs in that region

okay

>   and call `fill-paragraph-function' on
> them.

Can't see that. May you point me at?

Cheers,

Andreas