Re: How to "fill" these individual bullets, WITHOUT having to separate by white-space?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>]

() Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
() Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:46:26 -0700

   Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
   > On 18 Jan 2010 05:30:09 -0500, dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
   >> How to "fill" these individual bullets, WITHOUT having to separate by white-space?
   >>
   >>     * Manage user accounts
   >>     * Monitor filesystems and processes
   >>     * Work with configuration files in important formats such as XML and YAML
   >>     * Administer databases, including MySQL, MS-SQL, and Oracle with DBI
   >>     * Work with directory services like LDAP and Active Directory
   >>     * Script email protocols and spam control
   >>     * Effectively create, handle, and analyze log files Administer network name and configuration services, including NIS, DNS and DHCP
   >>     * Maintain, monitor, and map network services, using technologies and tools such as SNMP, nmap, libpcap, GraphViz and RRDtool
   >>     * Improve filesystem, process, and network security
   >
   > One way to do this is to set the fill-prefix to a string of spaces that
   > includes the space *after* one o the bullets and then M-q / fill-region.

I find that:

(setq paragraph-start " +\\* "
      paragraph-separate "\n"
      use-hard-newlines nil)

followed by `M-x fill-region' seems to work in Text mode.
Perhaps there is a better way.

thi