From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Felix E. Klee" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reformatting Chat Protocol? Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 13:30:37 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <847d35ff-14aa-44fc-9936-0130d97fe26d@z22g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291894814 16752 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 11:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:40:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 12:40:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQer3-0007ho-Jc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQer2-00048y-JH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:40:08 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!g2g2000vbe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.222.122.130 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1289770237 14155 127.0.0.1 (14 Nov 2010 21:30:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:30:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g2g2000vbe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.222.122.130; posting-account=_QalowoAAACdr6sX445IwCQAsFmTdEHe User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182429 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76995 Archived-At: Thanks for all the suggestions! In a quiet moment and without Internet access, I now had a look at the EMACS info pages. What I discovered: Setting the variables "paragraph-start" and "fill-prefix", for example in the "Local Variables" block, does the trick. Then I can simply use M-q to get the format I want. My current setting: paragraph-start: "\[[0-9. :]*\]" fill-prefix: " "