Re: org-(un)fill-buffer

[Psionic K <psionik@positron.solutions>]

If I run fill-region on a buffer, there's a lot of errors where the
lack of element awareness means filling is attempted on text that does
not fill properly, such as property drawers, keywords, and even
src-blocks without newline separations.  The result requires way too
much cleanup.

It is critical to be able to unfill documents for people to migrate
off of hard newlines and onto visual line mode with variable pitched
fonts.

I could probably convert this to a region-based command and we could
shadow fill-region.  It might be slightly tricky to deal with the
region if it overlaps elements, but if I had to do it now, I would
make the inclusion of part of an element include all of that element.

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 12:47 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Psionic K <psionik@positron.solutions> writes:
>
> >> You may instead just run
> >> (let ((fill-column most-positive-fixnum)) (fill-region (point-min) (point-max)))
> > No.  That will have to be run manually on every element and every line
> > of every list.  I suppose let's just not talk about it further and
> > I'll submit a patch so there's no confusion.
>
> May you please elaborate what is wrong with `fill-region'?
>
> > This is the org-fill-buffer command, done generically for people who want
> > to fill or unfill the entire buffer, as is required when alternating
> > between hard newline filling and visual line mode filling.
> > ...
> > * lisp/org.el: (org-fill-buffer) this command walks the tree and will
> > call fill-paragraph on every paragraph or plain-list element, enabling
> > the user to quickly cycle between hard newlines or visual-line-mode.
> > They can also adjust the fill, such as after removing indentation.
>
> I'd rather make use of the existing Emacs toggles that control filling,
> so that `fill-region' works as expected.
>
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> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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