From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: change in fill-paragraph Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:24:19 -0500 Message-ID: <76CdneycsJm7BpfVnZ2dnUVZ_hninZ2d@sysmatrix.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208655639 31930 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2008 01:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:40:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 20 03:41:14 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JnOYK-0004tX-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnOXf-00055W-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:23:49 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 35 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.45.140.22 Original-X-Trace: sv3-8z4BhV1hnkUAkLbNc8qNw8emaJJwIQQ7GzHo8ZWmjejRE/47Au3F46+9oSHARkOz7JSgGyLWWVykHuY!1SaUqsbrjG6k7Z51tPXaWyEN8T6Qbp2i/oS/gqnF/QN0NRV6ggiWadd7t3PkpQVn8ASBEVSJFj6i!wL7onMzjV741s5NkEzpOF1kV5ZOikw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158043 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53409 Archived-At: 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 ..."