Re: [BUG] fill-paragraph on commented line

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Dan,

On Apr 28, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Dan Davison wrote:

> I can see from the archives that fill-paragraph is a bit of a  
> headache,

:-) yes, indeed.

> but, still, I have a couple of queries...
>
> Firstly, with point on the # character below, M-q wraps the long line
> below, rather than the commented line, which is suprising.
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> # long line here long line here long line here long line here long  
> line here long line here long line here long line here long line  
> here long line here
>
> second long line here second long line here second long line here  
> second long line here second long line here second long line here  
> second long line here second long line here
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

No idea what is causing this.  I have been at war with the
comment prefix issue and never being able to resolve it
- except for using filladapt, that is.

>
> Also, would you mind reminding me what the intended behaviour is for  
> M-q
> on list items?
>
> If I have
>
> - item1
>   stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff here
>
> and do M-q, ideally I'd like it not to put the "stuff here" line onto
> the item1 line. Is that desirable but hard / not desirable /  
> supposed to
> be happening?

I think this should definitely put the second lin back into the first.
What would be nice though would be this:

- item1 \\
   stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff here stuff her

When \\ is there to specifically terminate the line, I'd love if the  
refilling
could respect this.  I am afraid I don't know how to do this, though.   
Maybe it can be done using filladapt, but I don't know.

A revision of the entire filling code might be a useful thing!

- Carsten