Re: Bind 'w' to a more useful function

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:15:00 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LMI> Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
>> I guess it is hard to do it right all the time. For example, I have read
>> emails with long lines mixed with code snippets. I like the long lines
>> to be filled but that usually screws up the code.

LMI> Yes.  So we need a code snippet that's able to look at a (long) line and guess whether it's natural text or something else.

LMI> One heuristic would be if there's a lot of short word-constituent elements, and not too much space.

LMI> I mean, the following paragraph has a different signature in that dept than

LMI>                                                       (process (start-process
LMI>                                                                 "images" nil "curl"
LMI>                                                                 "-s" "--create-dirs"

LMI> to take a random example from a buffer.  (This message isn't filled so that I can use it as a test case.)

I'm not optimistic.  Maybe Lisp+English will work, but natural text is
really hard to parse and source code too.

Ted