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>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:
> You can't, for the above reason.  AUCTeX's filling modes would have to
> be rewritten so that instead of deleting all spaces and reinserting
> one space, AUCTeX would delete all spaces except one.
> I think Emacs' default filling by now does something like that.

It might do a few things slightly differently, but it will modify the
buffer anyway, even if the end result is exactly the same as the
starting point (e.g. it will first turn all \n into spaces and then
turn them back into \n).


        Stefan