Re: fill-paragraph ill designed

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 26.08.2015 um 09:08 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?