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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Cc: 7751@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7751: 24.0.50; `fill-paragraph' on doc string with colons
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:13:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwe935vj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762f5sjpb.fsf@ed.ac.uk> (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:55:28 +0000")

Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:

>> The problem appears to be in the regexp used to define
>> paragraph-start in lisp-fill-paragraph:
>
>>       (let ((paragraph-start (concat paragraph-start
>> 				     "\\|\\s-*\\([(;:\"]\\|`(\\|#'(\\)"))
>
>> Removing the colon leads to "expected" line breaking.
>
> Would a patch to do this be welcome?

As explained in the comments in that file, the colon is there so that
forms like

(defcustom foo nil
  :bar 3)

Don't get refilled to

(defcustom foo nil :bar 3)

when you type M-q.  The effect on docstrings containing colons is
unfortunate, but simply removing the colon from the regexp would be
incorrect.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-17 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-28 20:45 bug#7751: 24.0.50; `fill-paragraph' on doc string with colons Drew Adams
2010-12-28 21:36 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-17 12:55   ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-17 14:13     ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-02-17 14:55       ` Drew Adams
2012-09-17  0:15         ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 10:05   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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