Re: org-(un)fill-buffer

[Samuel Wales]

i lost track of all the visual fill stuff vs. emacs native filling vs.
org filling vs. filladapt back before visual filling was able to fill
with both a fill column and a reasonably smart fill prefix reliably.
is that possible now?

also, if a new command is to be introduced, presumably it would work
on subtrees, paragraphs, lists, and regions, so that you could have it
not apply to informal non-org lists or code that is not in a source
block etc.

met with alex today
yesterday he wasn't available
  even thuogh he said he would be


On 1/10/24, Psionic K <psionik@positron.solutions> wrote:
> If I run fill-region on a buffer, there's a lot of errors where the
> lack of element awareness means filling is attempted on text that does
> not fill properly, such as property drawers, keywords, and even
> src-blocks without newline separations.  The result requires way too
> much cleanup.
>
> It is critical to be able to unfill documents for people to migrate
> off of hard newlines and onto visual line mode with variable pitched
> fonts.
>
> I could probably convert this to a region-based command and we could
> shadow fill-region.  It might be slightly tricky to deal with the
> region if it overlaps elements, but if I had to do it now, I would
> make the inclusion of part of an element include all of that element.
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:47 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Psionic K <psionik@positron.solutions> writes:
>>
>> >> You may instead just run
>> >> (let ((fill-column most-positive-fixnum)) (fill-region (point-min)
>> >> (point-max)))
>> > No.  That will have to be run manually on every element and every line
>> > of every list.  I suppose let's just not talk about it further and
>> > I'll submit a patch so there's no confusion.
>>
>> May you please elaborate what is wrong with `fill-region'?
>>
>> > This is the org-fill-buffer command, done generically for people who
>> > want
>> > to fill or unfill the entire buffer, as is required when alternating
>> > between hard newline filling and visual line mode filling.
>> > ...
>> > * lisp/org.el: (org-fill-buffer) this command walks the tree and will
>> > call fill-paragraph on every paragraph or plain-list element, enabling
>> > the user to quickly cycle between hard newlines or visual-line-mode.
>> > They can also adjust the fill, such as after removing indentation.
>>
>> I'd rather make use of the existing Emacs toggles that control filling,
>> so that `fill-region' works as expected.
>>
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