From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the amazing (and amazingly old) filladapt mode Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349269197 9501 80.91.229.3 (3 Oct 2012 12:59:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 12:59:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Adam Doppelt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 03 15:00:01 2012 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 1TJOY5-0000NH-Vd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:59:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJOY0-0003OQ-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:59:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJOXt-0003Mt-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJOXs-00010X-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:5583) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJOXr-00010Q-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:59:23 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FxLQG/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgcBboJkEQDozOBWIMF X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="200546372" Original-Received: from 69-196-180-6.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.180.6]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 03 Oct 2012 08:59:23 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D0674594D2; Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:59:22 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Adam Doppelt's message of "Tue, 2 Oct 2012 12:23:33 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:154001 Archived-At: > Does anyone else use filladapt mode for filling paragraphs? This thing > is great. It modifies fill-paragraph to handle a wide variety of line > prefixes. See examples below. It's hosted by the author here: As you probably saw from the answers, the situation is rather sad: - It won't make it to GNU ELPA for political reasons. - Even if it weren't for the political issues, it won't make it into Emacs proper because of implementation details. OTOH, I did look into improving fill.el to do filladapt-style things, many years ago, and still have some of the resulting features around. But for some reasons, I got distracted along the way, and then the code bit-rotted a little, so it's not "ready for inclusion" and will instead require a re-implementation. But at least, some of the implementation should be fairly easy. So I suggest you M-x report-emacs-bug to request enhancements, listing the cases that you care about. Stefan