Re: auto-fill... eh

[Eric Hanchrow <offby1@blarg.net>]

>>>>> "John" == John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

    John> This kinda bothers me.  I really want auto-fill to behave
    John> the way it does in every other program.  eg if you go back
    John> to the middle of a paragraph and start typing, I would like
    John> it to fill correctly.  See the Mozilla Mail client for an
    John> example of the behavior I mean.  I'm sure there are others
    John> but that's what sprang to mind.

    John> I am so so at lisp but I wanted to ask if anyone else had
    John> done this or knew how before I blew the cobwebs off the lisp
    John> part of my brain.  Thanks.

cperl-mode does this when you're typing in a comment.  It's pretty
slick!  I've never bothered to look at the Lisp code to see how,
though.

Also note that it doesn't work properly in CVS Emacs; try plain old
21.2 if you want to see it in action.
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