From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to "fill" these individual bullets, WITHOUT having to separate by white-space? Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:09:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87d415krzs.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87vdey40ws.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263985783 4402 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2010 11:09:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:09:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 20 12:09:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NXYRK-0004tf-OH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:09:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXYRL-0006Fw-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXYQn-0006Fo-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:09:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NXYQl-0006Fc-C3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:09:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47648 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXYQl-0006FZ-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: from host126-70-dynamic.21-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it ([79.21.70.126]:33882 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NXYQk-0001fm-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NXXUt-0002Yx-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:09:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:46:26 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Greylist: delayed 3430 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:08:58 EST X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71322 Archived-At: () Kevin Rodgers () 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