Re: Should `fill-paragraph' respect formatting?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland@ntnu.no> writes:

> I sent the following to an `org-mode' mailing list:
>
>> Applying `org-fill-paragraph' to /e.g./
>> 
>>   /Some text./  Some more text.

Shouldn't that be

  /Some text/.  Some more text.

😀

> `org-mode' binds it's own variant of `fill-paragraph', but should the
> default `fill-paragraph' respect formatting like this also?  /E.g./ when
> writing text outside `org-mode' (or something similar like
> `markdown-mode' for that matter), like in an e-mail, it's not uncommon
> to use formatting like _this._  Or is it better to leave this to individual
> major modes?

I think it's up to the individual modes.  

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