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Re: Using autofill./
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: Using autofill./ |
Date: |
05 Oct 2005 17:56:09 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>Neon Absentius <absent@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:
>>>On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:32:51PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>>> you can set the fill-column to its new value (i.e. 40) and
>>>> refill the paragraph by hitting M-q just once:
>>>>
>>>> * This is a test message. This is a test
>>>> message. This is a test message.This is a
>>>> test message. This is a test message. This
>>>> is a test message. This is a test
>>>> message. This is a test message. ^^^^^^^^
>>>> ^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Before you start giving advice on filling don't you think that you
>>> should first fix yours? You might want to have a look at the
>>> variable "sentence-end-double-space" for example.
>>
>> In what ways does my personal preference for the current setting of
>> sentence-end-double-space affect the correctness or the usefulness of
>> the advice about filling?
>
> In no way.
Thanks.
> Your advice was *irrelevant* to what the OP asked.
Not quite. Go back and reread the OP's post.
> At a meta-level, I do think that the fact that the filling behaviour
> of your copy of emacs is *obviously* not optimal, gives an indication
> of the usefulnes of your advice on the filling behaviour of emacs.
> Don't you?
No.
>> Keep the irony to yourself the next time, thanks...
>
> No, thank you. I'd rather share.
Great. Thanks for your invaluable contributions to the original
poster's question. *plonk*
Re: Using autofill./, rgb, 2005/10/04
Re: Using autofill./, Peter Dyballa, 2005/10/04