Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Adam Funk]

Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
line 

--This line, and those below, will be ignored--

as not being part of the paragraph, even if there is no blank line
before it?

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:21:48 +0000 Adam Funk wrote:

> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
> line 
>
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
>
> as not being part of the paragraph, even if there is no blank line
> before it?

Adjusting `paragraph-start' and/or `paragraph-separate' should be
enough.

David

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Adam Funk wrote:
> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
> line 

What package are you using, psvn?

Try:

(add-hook 'svn-log-edit-mode-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (setq paragraph-start (concat "\\(" paragraph-start "\\|--This
line, and those below, will be ignored--\\)"))))

It's getting duplicated for some reason, but that shouldn't affect the
functionality at all...

Matt Flaschen

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that when
>> I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a few
>> lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard line 

> What package are you using, psvn?

> (add-hook 'svn-log-edit-mode-hook
> 	  (lambda ()
> 	    (setq paragraph-start (concat "\\(" paragraph-start "\\|--This
> line, and those below, will be ignored--\\)"))))

Actually, it's paragraph-separate that should be changed (otherwise some
words from subsequent lines could be yanked to the end of the "-- ... --"
line).  Also the \\(..\\) is unnecessary because the \| operator has the
lowest precedence already, tho this doesn't make much difference.

 (add-hook 'svn-log-edit-mode-hook
   (lambda ()
    (set (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
         (concat paragraph-separate
                 "\\|--This line, and those below, will be ignored--"))))


-- Stefan

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-03-16, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Adam Funk wrote:
>> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
>> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
>> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
>> line 
>
> What package are you using, psvn?

Nothing, as far as I know.  I use the svn command from the shell and
EDITOR='emacs -nw' --- Emacs comes up with the commit message in
Fundamental mode.

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2007-03-16, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> Adam Funk wrote:
>>> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
>>> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
>>> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
>>> line 
>> What package are you using, psvn?
> 
> Nothing, as far as I know.  I use the svn command from the shell and
> EDITOR='emacs -nw' --- Emacs comes up with the commit message in
> Fundamental mode.

Okay, then just add this to .emacs.  It's necessary to set both start
and separate (separate alone doesn't work):

(setq paragraph-start (concat paragraph-start "\\|--This line, and those
below, will be ignored--"))
(setq paragraph-separate (concat paragraph-separate "\\|--This line, and
those below, will be ignored--"))

Matthew Flaschen

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-03-19, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Okay, then just add this to .emacs.  It's necessary to set both start
> and separate (separate alone doesn't work):

It's simple and it works.

Thanks!

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Petter Gustad]

Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> writes:

> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
> line 
> 
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
> 
> as not being part of the paragraph, even if there is no blank line
> before it?

You could use a function like this:

(defun subversion-fill-paragraph ()
  "like fill-paragraph but only for region from start of buffer to the
subversion mark"
  (interactive)
  (let ((svn-string "--This line, and those below, will be ignored--")
        (prevpoint (point))
        (svn-point))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (setf svn-point (search-forward svn-string))
    (when svn-point
      (fill-region (point-min) (- svn-point (length svn-string) 1)))
    (goto-char prevpoint)))


But I would suggest that you use subversion from within emacs (much
easier) presumably svn-status (somewhat like dired) where you can
check-in (by the c command) and type the string in a buffer followed
by C-c C-c, or even use the vc- commands (c-x v v) to check in single
files.

Petter

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Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Sam Peterson]

Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:21:48 +0000 didst step
forth and proclaim thus:

> Is there any easy way to set something in my ~/.emacs file so that
> when I'm editing subversion commit messages and I use M-q to tidy up a
> few lines of text, the fill-paragraph command will treat the standard
> line 
> 
> --This line, and those below, will be ignored--
> 
> as not being part of the paragraph, even if there is no blank line
> before it?

Methinks customizing paragraph-separate may prove fruitful.  Something like:

(setq paragraph-separate (concat "--.*\?--\\|" paragraph-separate))

I don't know what *-hook variable is run for subversion commit messages.  If
you find the right hook, just place the above code in a lambda or defun for it.

-- 
Sam Peterson
skpeterson At nospam ucdavis.edu
"if programmers were paid to remove code instead of adding it,
software would be much better" -- unknown

Re: Configuring fill-paragraph not to mash the subversion delimiter?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-04-06, Sam Peterson wrote:

> Methinks customizing paragraph-separate may prove fruitful.  Something like:
>
> (setq paragraph-separate (concat "--.*\?--\\|" paragraph-separate))
>
> I don't know what *-hook variable is run for subversion commit messages.  If
> you find the right hook, just place the above code in a lambda or defun for it.

Thanks, but Matthew Flaschen already gave me the simple answer [1]; I
put these lines in my ~/.emacs and that solved it:

(setq paragraph-start (concat paragraph-start "\\|--This line, and those below, will be ignored--"))
(setq paragraph-separate (concat paragraph-separate "\\|--This line, and those below, will be ignored--"))


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