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: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:41:38 -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 1125712559 17910 80.91.229.2 (3 Sep 2005 01:55:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 01:55:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 03 03:55:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBNFM-0006yW-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:55:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBNJg-0003b1-Bb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EBNFS-0002Ov-0C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EBNFE-0002GK-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBNFA-0002DF-T6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EBN6a-0004Av-Ci for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:46:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1EBN2I-0007I0-Gb; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:41:38 -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:42596 Archived-At: For example, I was tearing my hair out in frustration a couple of years back, trying to get the sentence/paragraph movement and filling stuff to work properly in CC Mode. If the documentation of paragraph-start and paragraph-separate is not clear enough, we can clarify it. I doubt that this would take the form of a "definition of paragraphs", though. The reason is that there is no simple "definition of paragraphs" at the base of the current code or these two variables. The concepts that the design is based on are the concepts that you see in the manual. The four regexps documented on this page all define chunks of natural-language text: paragraphs, pages and sentences. So how about renaming this @section something like "Sentences, Paragraphs and Pages", and making the focus of the @node the definition of these things in terms of the regexps, rather than the regexps themselves? I would be glad to consider a change of this sort.