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


From: Eric Abrahamsen
Subject: Re: understanding fill-region, paragraph-separate, and paragraph-start
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:18:07 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> 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.

Okay, thanks -- I'll give that a shot, though I'm discovering that the
effect I'm trying to create might be a little too complicated for the
built-in mechanisms. wrap-prefix does look promising, though...




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