From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-fill... eh Date: 05 Apr 2003 09:31:30 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yuoyhot.fsf@blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049564492 26017 80.91.224.249 (5 Apr 2003 17:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 05 19:41:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 191rfX-0006lU-00 for ; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 19:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 191rZh-000585-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2003 12:35:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 26 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:8201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:8201 >>>>> "John" == John Russell 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. -- This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels. Roger Ebert on "Freddy Got Fingered"