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From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs sporadically gets into a state in which M-q wraps lines at apostrophes
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:16:27 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f928d7d4-1e26-481c-aedb-668aa8ae12e9@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4120.1341505956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Friday, 6 July 2012 00:32:21 UTC+8, Matt McClure  wrote:


> I notice that the value of adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp is:
> 
>     "\\`[ 	]*\\'"
> 
> I'm suspicious of its including `'`, but changing its value by
> removing the `\\'` doesn't make the text wrap as I expect.

\\' is special syntax meaning end of line.

Does some other package that you load at some time during your Emacs session alter adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp or adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp? Perhaps something is stripping one or both \ characters which would result in the ' being interpreted literally by the regexp engine?




       reply	other threads:[~2012-07-06  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4120.1341505956.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-06  6:16 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2012-07-06  6:49   ` Emacs sporadically gets into a state in which M-q wraps lines at apostrophes Christopher Schmidt
2012-07-06 18:26     ` Matt McClure
2013-05-14 13:18       ` Matt McClure
2012-07-05 16:32 Matt McClure

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