From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fill-paragraph broken
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:07:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJcAo8uwWPPmXLDqU0XVHkDRCOsnAekdwOvp6FXBXQTBe1s0Vw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3kzlema.fsf@gmail.com>
You said to compare text modes with text modes. So let's talk about
text-mode itself? It works as I expect.
On 7/9/13, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I think Org should support this variable and not fill two commented
>> paragraphs with a commented empty line as if they were one.
>
> I do not.
>
>> When you fill in, for example, Emacs Lisp mode, each paragraph is
>> filled as a paragraph, without combining them.
>
> You're comparing apples and oranges. Emacs Lisp is a programming
> language, i.e., derived from `prog-mode', whereas Org is about text,
> i.e., ultimately derived from `text-mode'. Let's compare text modes with
> text modes.
>
> The only mode derived from `text-mode' with comments I can think of is
> `rst-mode'. And it doesn't fill comments at all. We might do the same
> for the sake of consistency...
>
>> I think there is benefit for the user in keeping things consistent
>> with other modes and supporting this Emacs variable.
>
> Org doesn't support this variable. It doesn't even use "newcomment.el".
> There is a simple reason for that: many functions in "newcomment.el"
> assume comments may start anywhere on a line. This is not possible in
> Org. "newcomment.el" is not meant for the `text-mode' family.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-10 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 20:53 fill-paragraph broken Samuel Wales
2013-07-09 12:00 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-09 17:47 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-09 18:47 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-09 19:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-10 8:07 ` Samuel Wales [this message]
2013-07-10 12:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-10 19:42 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-11 7:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-11 8:01 ` Samuel Wales
2013-07-11 8:19 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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