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Re: fill-paragraph ill designed
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Tassilo Horn |
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Re: fill-paragraph ill designed |
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Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:08:41 +0200 |
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Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> writes:
>> There is a lot of ugliness in the way fill-paragraph works, but
>> developing a replacement that works ok in practice is harder than it
>> looks. I recall a time that we tried.
>
> What would prevent switching the clauses as suggested?
IMO, it makes completely sense that `fill-paragraph' delegates to
`fill-region' if the region is active so that not every mode-specific
`fill-paragraph-function' has to do that on its own.
What I think is wrong is the way `fill-region' works right now. Why
doesn't it move over the paragraphs in the active region using
`fill-forward-paragraph' (which can be defined mode-specific using
`fill-forward-paragraph-function'), and then call
`fill-paragraph-function' on each paragraph?
The current behavior is ok when there is no `fill-paragraph-function',
but if there is, then it should be used.
That would allow mode authors to define a custom
`fill-paragraph-function' (and a `fill-forward-paragraph-function' if
needed), and then multi-paragraph filling would just work.
If there are good reasons for the way it is currently implemented, then
the docs should at least document how a mode author should implement
region/multi-paragraph filling. The function
`LaTeX-fill-forward-paragraph' in my previous mail seems to work, but it
relies on completely undocumented behavior:
(1) `fill-forward-paragraph-function' only speaks of moving over
paragraphs, but `LaTeX-fill-forward-paragraph' fills while moving.
(2) `LaTeX-fill-forward-paragraph' also moves point one char more than
required in order not to trap into the last `fill-region'
condition which would call `fill-region-as-paragraph' and then
destroy the correct filling again.
Bye,
Tassilo
Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/25
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Richard Stallman, 2015/08/25
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/26
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed,
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/26
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Tassilo Horn, 2015/08/26
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/26
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Tassilo Horn, 2015/08/26
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Stefan Monnier, 2015/08/27
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/27
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Tassilo Horn, 2015/08/28
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/28
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Tassilo Horn, 2015/08/28
- Re: fill-paragraph ill designed, Andreas Röhler, 2015/08/29