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Re: Patch to
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Francis Litterio |
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Re: Patch to |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:21:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) |
Richard Stallman wrote:
> The below patch enables adaptive-fill-mode to properly fill paragraphs
> that use 'o' as a bullet, like this:
>
> o Testing one two three one two three one two three one two three one
> two three one two three one two three.
>
> That result is an improvement, but I wonder if this might also
> lead to false identification of prefixes in some cases.
> I can't see, off hand, how that could happen, I just have
> a concern about it. Does anyone else see such cases?
>
> If not, we can try it and see if it causes any problems.
I've found one case already where it causes a problem -- when filling a
long line that starts with a word beginning with 'o' or 'O', you end up
with a paragraph looking like this:
Of course, this is just a long line to demonstrate the problem. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah.
I think the regexp can be adjusted to compensate for this, but Stefan
Monnier's objection about "o" meaning "or" in Spanish is a much more
significant problem, and probably reason to leave this patch out.
Sorry for any confusion.
--
Francis Litterio
franl <at> world . std . com