Re: Simple function works in ver. 21.3 but not in 22.0

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <a371f$4601ff56$49f11e1$7064@DIALUPUSA.NET>,
 "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@alcisp.com> wrote:

> Does any of you know why this should not work in version 22.0 (w32)?:
> 
> (defun unfill-paragraph () ;; bound to C-x M-q
>    "Do the opposite of fill-paragraph; stuff all lines in the current 
> paragraph into a single long line."
>    (interactive)
>    (let ((fill-column 90002000))
>      (fill-paragraph nil)))

Works for me in 22.0.50.

> 
> C-h k C-x M-q does show that the function is bound to that key sequence, with:
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-x\M-q" 'unfill-paragraph)
> 
> The only other settings that I can think might affect this (under 
> custom-set-variables) are:
> 
>   '(sentence-end "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|	\\| \\)[ 	
> ]*")
>   '(sentence-end-double-space nil)
> 
> It looks like fill-paragraph is ignoring the fill-column value in the let 
> form. Any ideas?
> 
> Ed.

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