bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Arcady Genkin]

Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
paragraphs when composing a message?

Many thanks,
-- 
Arcady Genkin
i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end

Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Robin S. Socha]

* Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> writes:

> Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
> paragraphs when composing a message?

Have you tried "C-h k C-x ."?

Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Arcady Genkin]

"Robin S. Socha" <robin-dated-1006984972.aca63e@socha.net> writes:

> * Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
> > paragraphs when composing a message?
> 
> Have you tried "C-h k C-x ."?

Thanks.  This /almost/ does what I wanted.  For example:

-  I type a bunch of text at a bulleted line, and then, when it wraps
   to the other line, I need to type "C-a <TAB> C-x ."  This is a bit
   troublesome, but acceptable.

Now, imagine that I decide to edit the first line of the paragraph
above, and insert a few more words into it; it's too long now.  I
press a shortcut for `fill-paragraph', but it doesn't do anything.  :(

Any further ideas?
-- 
Arcady Genkin
i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end

Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Kai Großjohann]

Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> writes:

> Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
> paragraphs when composing a message?

* This is just some text to show what happens when one inserts text
  after an item like this.

M-q works as you would expect.  But you need to have empty lines
between items.

Some time ago, message mode would also grok "(42)" as a "bullet", but
that happens no more.  Dunno why.

kai
-- 
Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)

Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Arcady Genkin]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Groъjohann) writes:

> Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> writes:
> 
> > Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
> > paragraphs when composing a message?
> 
> * This is just some text to show what happens when one inserts text
>   after an item like this.

How did you get it to work this way?  In my setup, the word `after'
would start at column 0, not 2.

> M-q works as you would expect.  

Funny, in my case M-q inserts "* " before *every* line in the
paragraph as your example; but that only happens when an asterisk is
used as a bullet.  I routinely use hyphen as a bullet character, so I
guess that's why I haven't noticed this behaviour before.

> Some time ago, message mode would also grok "(42)" as a "bullet", but
> that happens no more.  Dunno why.

Well, it seems that asterisk is still treated as somewhat special (at
least for me), but only when it comes to filling a paragraph.
-- 
Arcady Genkin
i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end

Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Toby Speight]

0> In article <871yimplbi.fsf@tea.thpoon.com>,
0> Arcady Genkin <URL:mailto:antipode@thpoon.com> ("Arcady") wrote:

Arcady> Is there any automation available for indenting bulleted/numbered
Arcady> paragraphs when composing a message?

Filladapt (though you have to write the bullet or number yourself - it
can't do auto-numbering for you).

For messages, I have

  (setq paragraph-separate
        (concat "^" (regexp-quote mail-header-separator) "$"
                "\\|-- $\\|[   ]*[-_][-_][-_]+$\\|[ \t\C-l]*$"
                "\\|^[ >]*>\\s-*$\\|[A-Za-z0-9][^'`\"< \t\n]*>\\s-*$"))
  (setq paragraph-start paragraph-separate)
  (set (make-local-variable 'filladapt-token-table)
       '(
         ;; this must be first
         ("^" beginning-of-line)
         ;; Blank (magic) lines
         ("--text follows this line--$" end-of-line)
         ("--\\[\\[\\([^][]\\|\\]\\[\\)*\\]\\]$" end-of-line)
         ;; Included text in news or mail replies
         ("[ >]*>" citation->)
         ;; Included text generated by SUPERCITE.  We can't hope to match all
         ;; the possible variations, your mileage may vary.
         ("[A-Za-z0-9][^'`\"< \t\n]*>[ \t]*" supercite-citation)
         ("[#=]+>[ \t]*" supercite-citation)
         ;; Boxquote
         ("|" citation->)
         ;; "root" (authoritative) quotes
         ("#+>?" sh-comment)
         ;; RFC-822 headers are kind-of hanging
         ("^[A-Z][-A-Za-z0-9]+:[ \t]+" bullet)
         ;; Hanging lists; see filladapt.el
         ("[A-Za-z]\\.[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("(?[A-Za-z])[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("[0-9]+[A-Za-z]?\\.[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("(?[0-9]+[A-Za-z]?)[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("\\[[0-9]+[A-Za-z]?\\][ \t]" bullet)
         ("X?X?\\(X\\|I[XV]\\|V\\|V?I\\(\\|I\\(\\|I\\)?\\)?\\)\\.[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("x?x?\\(x\\|i[xv]\\|v\\|v?i\\(\\|i\\(\\|i\\)?\\)?\\)\\.[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("\\[[-~*+#!]\\][ \t]+" bullet)
         ("[-~*+]+[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("o[ \t]+" bullet)
         ("[ \t]*\\[\\Sw\\][ \t] +" bullet)
         ("N\\.?B\\.?:?[ \t]" bullet)
         ("[?!~*+--- ]+[ \t]" bullet)
         ;; don't touch
         ("[ \t]+" space)
         ("$" end-of-line)
         ))