Re: auto-fill... eh

[Daniel R. Anderson]

for anybody who codes emacs taking a poll, that includes me too.

and for the record I think tabs are cool.

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 06:29, John Russell wrote:
> Quote from the emacs manual
> 
>    Auto Fill mode does not refill entire paragraphs; it can break
> lines but cannot merge lines.  So editing in the middle of a paragraph
> can result in a paragraph that is not correctly filled.  The easiest
> way to make the paragraph properly filled again is usually with the
> explicit fill commands.  See *Note Fill Commands::.
> 
> 
> This kinda bothers me.  I really want auto-fill to behave the way it
> does in every other program.  eg if you go back to the middle of a
> paragraph and start typing, I would like it to fill correctly.  See
> the Mozilla Mail client for an example of the behavior I mean.  I'm
> sure there are others but that's what sprang to mind.  
> 
> I am so so at lisp but I wanted to ask if anyone else had done this
> or knew how before I blew the cobwebs off the lisp part of my brain.
> Thanks.
> 
> John
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