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RE: fill-paragraph vs. financial institutions
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: fill-paragraph vs. financial institutions |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:40:56 -0700 |
Now you've really done it. M-x fill-paragraph on
487.2875,
487.3375,
487.4000,
...
gives
487.2875, 3375, 4000, 4500, 4750, 5250, 5500, 6000, 7250,
8000, 8500, 487.8750,
adaptive-fill-regexp has an explicit alternative to match prefixes
such as `NNN.' This would only apply in the case where the first two
lines of a paragraph both start that way.
Maybe we should delete that case.
Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I just got bit by this. Yes, please get rid of
this feature. The traditional behavior is fine: fill and indent properly
when only the first line starts that way.
IOW, this:
1. Some text here in a long line that gets filled.
should not turn into this:
1. Some text here in a long
1. line that gets filled.
It should instead turn into this:
1. Some text here in a long
line that gets filled.
Is that really a case that people
use? In some kinds of outlines, the first line of a paragraph would
start that way, but you wouldn't put the prefix on every line.
Can anyone think of a reason why we should keep this case?
Not I.
I propose therefore the following change. Does anyone see a
problem in it?
If that puts things back the way they were in previous versions, then that's
good.