Re: fill-paragraph ill designed

[Tassilo Horn]

No, I can't point at it. I spoke in the subjunctive, i.e., IMO it would be 
the right thing to do for fill-region but currently it works differently.


On August 26, 2015 18:46:23 Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am 26.08.2015 um 14:40 schrieb Tassilo Horn:
> > 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.
> > > Let's assume region is up to or inside a documentation-string in
> > > Python.
> > >
> > > Then fill-region will be called instead of fill-paragraph-function.
> > >
> > > But how should fill-region get access or know about Python docu-string
> > > styles?
> > `fill-region' would utilize `fill-forward-paragraph-function' to move
> > over the paragraphs in that region
>
> okay
>
> >   and call `fill-paragraph-function' on
> > them.
>
> Can't see that. May you point me at?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas