From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill-paragraph ill designed
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:41:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55E002A3.9090600@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4gv9b7h.fsf@gnu.org>
Am 28.08.2015 um 08:30 schrieb Tassilo Horn:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>>> and call `fill-paragraph-function' on them.
>>> Can't see that. May you point me at?
>> fill-region doesn't (and more importantly can't) delegate to
>> fill-paragraph-function since fill-paragraph-function doesn't take
>> begin/end arguments.
> Are you saying that there would be a problem if the region starts in the
> middle of a paragraph and/or ends in the middle of another paragraph?
>
> I didn't test but I think that case could be solved by narrowing to the
> region before doing the filling. But of course, then the first and last
> line would probably be filled beyond fill-column if the region
> starts/ends in the middle of a line. So the region could be extended or
> shrunken to complete lines before narrowing with the negative effect
> that two partial lines are either not filled or filled too much.
>
> So yes, it seems to be not possible to get it completely right. But
> IMHO that solution is still better than simply ignoring
> `fill-paragraph-function' and filling in a way which may break the
> syntax of the text.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
>
IMHO fill-region stuff doesn't belong into at all.
Paragraph and region are independent notions - both with its own ideas
of beginning and end.
Let's keep them separated.
Cheers,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-25 8:24 fill-paragraph ill designed Andreas Röhler
2015-08-25 9:05 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-25 9:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-25 12:18 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-25 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-26 7:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-25 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-25 22:14 ` Richard Stallman
2015-08-26 6:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-26 7:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-26 12:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-26 12:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-26 16:45 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-26 17:03 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-27 16:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-27 17:48 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-28 6:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-28 6:41 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2015-08-28 8:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-08-29 19:47 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-30 7:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-08-31 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-28 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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