From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Beginingless paragraphs Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:53:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125590928 18161 80.91.229.2 (1 Sep 2005 16:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 01 18:08:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EArXh-0004E9-F9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:03:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EArbw-0001ND-CC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EArYg-0007uf-A4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:04:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EArYb-0007rN-Fm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EArYZ-0007gw-Ke for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EArR4-0000Fb-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EArNE-0000cs-Ko; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:53:08 -0400 Original-To: Alan Mackenzie In-reply-to: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:11:56 +0000 (GMT)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42556 Archived-At: >Do we need one? Certainly in the Emacs Lisp manual we don't. >It is a high-level concept used in just a few user-level commands. I disagree most strongly here. Hackers need to know how to set up paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) so that they can make the canonical paragraph commands behave the way they want them to. This is precisely what the Emacs Manual documents now.