Re: Using autofill./

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>>>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>> you can set the fill-column to its new value (i.e. 40) and
>>>> refill the paragraph by hitting M-q just once:
>>>>
>>>>     * This is a test message. This is a test
>>>>       message. This is a test message.This is a
>>>>       test message. This is a test message. This
>>>>       is a test message. This is a test
>>>>       message. This is a test message.  ^^^^^^^^
>>>>       ^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Before you start giving advice on filling don't you think that you
>>> should first fix yours?  You might want to have a look at the
>>> variable "sentence-end-double-space" for example.
>>
>> In what ways does my personal preference for the current setting of
>> sentence-end-double-space affect the correctness or the usefulness of
>> the advice about filling?
>
> In no way.

Thanks.

> Your advice was *irrelevant* to what the OP asked.

Not quite.  Go back and reread the OP's post.

> At a meta-level, I do think that the fact that the filling behaviour
> of your copy of emacs is *obviously* not optimal, gives an indication
> of the usefulnes of your advice on the filling behaviour of emacs.
> Don't you?

No.

>> Keep the irony to yourself the next time, thanks...
>
> No, thank you.  I'd rather share.

Great.  Thanks for your invaluable contributions to the original
poster's question.  *plonk*