Re: Can't Deuglify!

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

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...

Bye,
Tassilo
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