bug#38665: [PATCH] Add nosqueeze for fill-paragraph

[Stefan Kangas]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> writes:
>>
>>> My suggestion there for C-u C-u was:
>>>
>>>>>> That could mean "prompt for the fill-prefix, and use the default
>>>>>> column and justify values", but it might be more useful to instead
>>>>>> make it prompt for *everything* -- justify, fill-column,
>>>>>> fill-prefix, and maybe left-margin too.
>>>>>> The default value would be provided in each case, so you could
>>>>>> just RET your way past the ones you didn't want to change.
>>>
>>> I think we could blend the 'nosqueeze' option into all this, but if
>>> the new changes could happen in a way which wouldn't create any serious
>>> conflicts for the other changes I'm still hoping to get made, that
>>> would be grand.
>>>
>>> Or if someone is motivated, please feel free to run with what I'd
>>> already done.  I may have some more-recent local WIP on my other
>>> machine; I'll have a look for that later.
>>
>> I think the idea is sound -- there's so many variations of what you'd
>> possibly want this command to do, so prompting seems good: Neither user
>> options nor adding more prefix combinations would help, I think.
>>
>> If you could finish up the WIP and post the patch, that'd be great.
>
> That was 2 years ago.  Phil, did you make any progress with your patch?

Friendly "one year later" ping.