Re: fill-paragraph / fill region in latex (auctex) buffer

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> When I select a region with the same text, the behavior is different  - no
>>> %'s are inserted, and I get an undesirable result.
>>> This is annoying, because I would want to use fill-region on a whole  buffer
>>> in order to wrap lines, and it turns all the commented out  stuff into text
>>> that appears in my latex document...
>> 
>>> Is this a bug?
>> Yes.
>>> If so, is it due to Emacs or to AUCTeX?
>> Emacs.
> In which sense?  That you cannot hook specialized filling functions
> into `fill-region'?

Either that, or that fill-region doesn't understand the fact that blocks of
comments are paragraphs (actually fill-paragraph doesn't quite understand
it either: it only works when you're inside the comment, and even then only
in some cases).


        Stefan