Re: understanding fill-region, paragraph-separate, and paragraph-start

[Stephen Berman]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:15:41 -0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> 
wrote:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:47:01 -0800 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
[...]
>>> I'll worry about the underhang later -- how is this meant to work? I
>>> also thought `paragraph-separate' might be a "\n", but that goes back to
>>> doing nothing.
>>>
>>> And hints much appreciated!
>>
>> I can't help with paragraph-separate, fill-region etc., but FWIW you can
>> get the visual effect of the above by using a combination of
>> visual-line-mode and wrap-prefix.
>
> That's an interesting idea, thanks. This is a read-only special-mode
> buffer, but maybe that doesn't preclude the use of visual-line-mode.

It definitely doesn't; e.g. it's the way todo-mode (also read-only and
derived from special-mode) works by default.

Steve Berman