Re: Can't Deuglify!

[Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:14:09 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
>>> At a first glance, the only annoying thing is the comb-quoting,
>>> right?
>>
>> Well, generally bad line-wrapping, whether in quoted text or not.
>>
>>> That can be easily deuglified using `W w'.
>>
>> Yeah, I guess... I'm reluctant to use `W w' because it's such a big
>> hammer.  It tends to mangle code sections and bulleted/numbered lists
>> whose items aren't separated by blank lines.
>
> Yes, that's true.  It would be useful if one could could restrict the
> washing commands to only operate on the active region.  Then you could
> use
>
>   h <move point to bad paragraph> M-h W w
>
> jump to the article buffer, mark a badly formatted paragraph and refill
> it without affecting other parts.  Hm, that's much less convenient than
> a DWIMish operation, so maybe it's better to teach `W w' to handle
> bulleted/numbered lists properly...

I once submitted a patch to make `W w' operate on the region:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64884

Steve Berman