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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Necessity of `org-fill-paragraph'
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:37:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo4nropq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a71jyr3m.fsf@gmail.com> (Dominik Schrempf's message of "Thu, 04 Jun 2020 14:04:29 +0200")

Hello,

Dominik Schrempf <dominik.schrempf@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using a global keybinding for =M-q=, so that I can fill and unfill
> paragraphs with one key stroke (unfill.el):
>
> : (global-set-key (kbd "s-q") 'unfill-toggle)
>
> For a long time, I thought that =fill-paragraph= was broken in Org mode, because
> it doesn't work well on code blocks, on lists, and on many other things [1].
> Just now, I realized that Org mode uses a specialized version of
> `fill-paragraph`, called `org-fill-paragraph`.
>
> Hence, the aforementioned global key binding breaks behavior in Org mode,
> although the function =unfill-toggle= is just a wrapper around
> =fill-paragraph=.

You could detect if you're in an Org document beforehand.
`org-fill-paragraph' obeys to `fill-column'.

> Is it necessary to have the specialized function =org-fill-paragraph=? Is it
> possible to use the canonical =fill-paragraph=?

There is `fill-paragraph-function', but it only kicks when no region is
selected. Using it would break region filling. There is also
`fill-forward-paragraph-function', but I think it is too limited.

In a nutshell, I didn't find any way to fill correctly Org documents
using `fill-paragraph' mechanism. So I wrote the current implementation
of `org-fill-paragraph', which is a wrapper around `org-fill-element'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-04 12:04 Necessity of `org-fill-paragraph' Dominik Schrempf
2020-06-04 12:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2020-06-04 12:49   ` Dominik Schrempf
2020-06-04 12:53     ` Eric S Fraga

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