From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79582 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Can't Deuglify! Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:32:02 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1311777213 27605 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2011 14:33:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:33:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27878@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 27 16:33:29 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 1Qm5At-0000kG-Al for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:33:27 +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 1Qm59m-0006vG-Kh; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm59j-0006uw-Mz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm59h-000083-9p for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-vx0-f172.google.com ([209.85.220.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qm59f-0003ma-7A for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: by vxi40 with SMTP id 40so2032241vxi.17 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.165.143 with SMTP id i15mr31637vcy.178.1311777124683; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.luannocracy.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bp11sm53134vcb.24.2011.07.27.07.32.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.luannocracy.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id 4F49F8227D1; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:32:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87mxg0ucy6.fsf@tsdh.uni-koblenz.de> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:14:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79582 Archived-At: on Tue Jul 26 2011, 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... ...and other things, like code. My feeling was always that lines beginning with whitespace should usually be left alone. In any case, I favor DWIMishness. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com