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Re: Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph


From: Andreas Politz
Subject: Re: Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:08:10 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> Op woensdag 12 mei 2010 12:21 CEST, Pascal J. Bourguignon schreef:
>
>>> Is there a way to change the behaviour of fill-paragraph?
>>
>> Yes.  Keep an empty line inserted between paragraphs and lists.  The
>> correct way to format such text is (as testified for example by reST):
>
> That is not a change of behaviour from fill paragraph, but a change of
> layout. That works (and sometimes I use it), but the empty line is not
> always acceptable. I then use the empty line, to be removed later (what
> I sometimes forget), or work with a region. In principal better, because
> I see immediately that I messed things up. But when I do not correct ...

I think the problem here is, that it is impossible to tell the paragraph
functions, that a line like

This line ends a paragraph:

does indeed end a paragraph.  There are variables `paragraph-start' and
`paragraph-separate', but not paragraph-end .

-ap


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