From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to "fill" these individual bullets, WITHOUT having to separate by white-space? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:09:14 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87pr54hr39.fsf@kobe.laptop> 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 1264070491 4618 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2010 10:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 11:41:24 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 1NXuTb-0003z7-5s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:41:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NXuTc-0005Fx-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:41:24 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HqB6k4LbCMlVxBY8GO6Nk3ZS6T0= Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.64.210.136 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=d5WLl`WUg<`1joJZA^dLN@mmMoX7n[WaIMdSENVNVNTWLaJ>mLUI3`:8j Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176272 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:71342 Archived-At: On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:46:26 -0700, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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. > > Doesn't that run everything together like so: > > * 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 Hum, it does, you are right. I don't remember why I wrote the original suggestion, but it looks wrong.