From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd@gnu.org>, "'Lawrence Mitchell'" <wence@gmx.li>
Cc: 7751@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7751: 24.0.50; `fill-paragraph' on doc string with colons
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:55:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B4B7DE099C674C23B0CFA27B49BBD636@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwe935vj.fsf@gnu.org>
> the colon is there so that forms like
> (defcustom foo nil
> :bar 3)
>
> Don't get refilled to
> (defcustom foo nil :bar 3)
>
> when you type M-q.
And just why is that important?
If there is room for it given the value of `fill-column', such filling makes
sense - a good thing, not a bad thing.
Sure, it would be best if a keyword and its value were always (`fill-column'
permitting) on the same line. But that's a nice-to-have - it should not be the
first priority or the reason for mangling filling of doc strings.
Anyway, the #7751 bug report is not about that, at all.
It's about using `M-q' on a _doc string_. It's not about using `M-q' on a sexp
such as you present above (which has no strings at all). Let's not take a
detour. If the current code does not distinguish the doc-string case, maybe it
should.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-17 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-28 20:45 bug#7751: 24.0.50; `fill-paragraph' on doc string with colons Drew Adams
2010-12-28 21:36 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-17 12:55 ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-17 14:13 ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-17 14:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-09-17 0:15 ` Drew Adams
2016-04-28 10:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=B4B7DE099C674C23B0CFA27B49BBD636@us.oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=7751@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=cyd@gnu.org \
--cc=wence@gmx.li \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.