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

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

> instead of the simple `fill-region-as-paragraph' call (in the else
> part of the above form) currently in `fill-region' and making `end' a
> marker.  But it would probably make more sense to make
> `fill-region-as-paragraph' aware of comments.

I don't think so: fill-region-as-paragraph is really the function that fills
"one paragraph".  So to handle comments, the most important part is to
change fill-region so as to recognize that blocks of comments are paragraphs
on their own.  I.e. it's the forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph
functionality that needs to be made aware of comments (and strings,
incidentally).  Tho I'm unsure about the M-{ and M-} part: fill.el should
maybe have its notion of paragraphs.

> So for the problem at hand the OP should simply use the functions
> provided by AUCTeX instead of `fill-region'.  Of course it would be
> nice if the specialized function(s) could be hooked into `fill-region'
> because then the menu entry `Edit --> Fill' would work as well.

I'd rather add something like fill-paragraph-forward-function should could
then be used both by fill-region and by fill-paragraph.


        Stefan