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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Run `fill-paragraph' on all the paragraphs in the currently opened LaTeX document.
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:21:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl3m718k.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAP_d_8Whri3Qg_dV0Hc3=E_WsVaPn9=9q7hTDKwNdRazYz04Gg@mail.gmail.com

Yuri Khan wrote:

>>> Why do you even want that?
>>
>> I use SyncTeX to do the forward and backward search, which
>> is based on linefeed separated line to locate the position
>> in the source LaTeX document. If a paragraph is arranged in
>> one line, the backward search will always jump to a very
>> inaccurate location.
>
> I’m not suggesting
> keeping each paragraph as a single long line.
> What I’m suggesting is
> dividing paragraphs into sentences
> and sentences into phrases
> while keeping each line reasonably short
> but without trying to cram as much as possible into each line.
>
> (This mail uses semantic line breaks,
> as a demonstration.)

No kidding ... what are the advantages with that you say?

But even so people are so used with paragraphs I don't know if
those would come into play anyway. Maybe if people did that
from day one?

To the OP (Hongyi Zhao), check out:
  https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/wrap-search.el

Does it work to search backward with that? I think so :)

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-18 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-17  5:30 Run `fill-paragraph' on all the paragraphs in the currently opened LaTeX document Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-17  6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-17  7:23   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-17 10:25     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17 12:28       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-17 12:42         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17 15:30 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-17 15:37   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-17 15:45     ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-17 17:22       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-18  0:22   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-18  4:42     ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-18  4:50       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-18 14:00         ` Eric S Fraga
2021-10-19  1:21           ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-18  8:56       ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-10-18 16:28         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-18 16:21       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-10-18 16:17     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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