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>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:
> Come off it.  Nobody uses M-q as a substitute for forward-paragraph on
> filled text.  It is a text-changing command.  I don't think people
> will complain much if it changes text.  They will complain if regions
> and marks end up on the wrong side of (maybe adjusted) white space,
> though.  _Regardless_ of whether there were indeed formatting changes
> or not.

I have no clue what makes you think I disagree with you.
I though I made it pretty clear that my comment was only an answer
to your implicit question about whether Emacs' default filling code
had solved that problem.


        Stefan