Re: fill-paragraph ill designed

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

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