From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: fill-paragraph ill designed Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:40 -0400 Message-ID: References: <55DC2621.4030905@online.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440540998 32344 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 22:16:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:16:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 00:16:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMW8-0002ib-AE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:16:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34908 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMW7-0007Ic-Ov for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36415) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMUP-0004wE-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMUO-0005qZ-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52049) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMUL-0005mi-6n; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUMUK-0001ZV-Bp; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:14:40 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:51:55 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:189179 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] There is a lot of ugliness in the way fill-paragraph works, but developing a replacement that works ok in practice is harder than it looks. I recall a time that we tried. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.