Re: Has filling behavior been changed recently in org?

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> On 2009-11-12, Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>>> For some reason, I can fill a commented paragraph in emacs lisp mode,
>>> text mode, and fundamental mode, but not in org mode.  It does
>>> nothing.  fill-column is my normal 60.  I cannot debug it.  Did
>>> something change recently?  I use filladapt.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sorry for the question, but "in emacs lisp mode" is not "in org mode",
>> is it?
>
> Sorry, I don't understand your comment at all.



Sorry, I mis-read your mail :-(

I read:
  For some reason, I can fill a commented paragraph in emacs lisp mode,

...but somehow the next line slipped through.




Well, I believe the problem is, that we have no simple defined comment
start in Org-mode.

If `#' was the comment start, lines might be wrapped and stop
working. As `#' also starts working directives, e.g. for ditaa and
gnuplot.

In addition, a `#' may occur anywhere in a line but the first non-blank
position and would not start a comment.

Also, imagine a code block like this:

  #+begin_src perl
    print "This example";
    # ...contains a perl comment...
    # In deep nested node, this line might wrap, because of the fill column.
  #+end_src



Anyway, I believe it could be done - but no one got around and did it
yet. It seems complicated and error prone.



Best wishes

  Sebastian