Re: change in fill-paragraph

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

ken wrote:
> 
> With the versions of emacs I've been using for years, fill-paragraph 
> won't fill/reformat include in its definition of a paragraph any line 
> which begins with a space.  However, the newer emacs version I use at 
> work will.  That is,
> 
> (1) In the older versions, this will be
> one paragraph.  M-q will reformat it
> fine.  I like it this way.
>  (2) In the older versions, having just a
> single space at the beginning
> of a line tells paragraph-fill that this is
> a separate paragraph.  So this would be a
> separate paragraph.
>  (3) In the new emacs version, all of these
> would constitute one paragraph and so be
> filled together.  I would much prefer the older way
> fill-paragraph works... so that (1), (2), and (3)
> stay where they are.
> 
> How would I restore the old behavior to the new version of emacs?
> 
> 
> Thanks much.
> 

You can get this with

"(paragraph-indent-text-mode)

Major mode for editing text, with leading spaces starting a paragraph.
In this mode, you do not need blank lines between paragraphs
when the first line of the following paragraph starts with whitespace.
`paragraph-indent-minor-mode' provides a similar facility ..."