Re: org-(un)fill-buffer

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Psionic K <psionik@positron.solutions> writes:

>> You may instead just run
>> (let ((fill-column most-positive-fixnum)) (fill-region (point-min) (point-max)))
> No.  That will have to be run manually on every element and every line
> of every list.  I suppose let's just not talk about it further and
> I'll submit a patch so there's no confusion.

May you please elaborate what is wrong with `fill-region'?

> This is the org-fill-buffer command, done generically for people who want
> to fill or unfill the entire buffer, as is required when alternating
> between hard newline filling and visual line mode filling.
> ...
> * lisp/org.el: (org-fill-buffer) this command walks the tree and will
> call fill-paragraph on every paragraph or plain-list element, enabling
> the user to quickly cycle between hard newlines or visual-line-mode.
> They can also adjust the fill, such as after removing indentation.

I'd rather make use of the existing Emacs toggles that control filling,
so that `fill-region' works as expected.

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