Re: Alinea filling (hanlding of explicit line-breaks)

[Stefan Monnier]

>> An important question here is: is it important for M-} to ignore those \\?
> I guess so, this is the current default Org behaviour anyhow.

Good.

> as far as I understand, it would be anyhow possible to move point on
> an alinea-by-alinea basis just by configuring the tailing \\ as
> anohter paragraph separator.

Actually, no, because paragraph-separate would cause the whole line that
ends with \\ to be treated as not being part of a paragraph, and
paragraph-start wouldn't be appropriate either.
Hence the "good" above :-(

>> Of course fill-paragraph-function sucks because it only applies to
>> fill-paragraph and not to fill-region.

> Do you mean that `fill-paragraph-function' is some kind of obsolete
> feature and that people should use another kind of hook, and if so
> which one?

Yes and no: there is no replacement for it.  There is
fill-forward-paragraph-function, which can handle some of the cases for
which fill-paragraph-function has been used, but there would need to be
something like a fill-region-as-paragraph-function and we don't have
that yet :-(


        Stefan