From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79584 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't Deuglify! Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:11:23 +0200 Message-ID: <871uxa38r8.fsf@escher.fritz.box> References: <87k4b6svdx.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87r55egmo0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87mxg0ucy6.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311855161 22465 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2011 12:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:12:41 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27880@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jul 28 14:12:37 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPS8-0004Eh-5t for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:12:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPRJ-0004IH-Nl; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPRH-0004Hx-Kq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:11:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPRD-0005HP-J8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPRA-0001Lc-5U for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:11:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QmPR9-0003oC-Io for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from i59f554ed.versanet.de ([89.245.84.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:11:35 +0200 Original-Received: from stephen.berman by i59f554ed.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:11:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i59f554ed.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -6.1 (------) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79584 Archived-At: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:14:09 +0200 Tassilo Horn wrote: > Dave Abrahams 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 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