paragraph separator in message mode

paragraph separator in message mode

[David S Goldberg]

I've had these lines in my message-mode-hook for some time now but
since I just noticed that I needed to make a fix to the regexp I
wonder if it shouldn't somehow be the default behavior for
message-mode.

(make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
(setq paragraph-separate
      (concat paragraph-separate
              "\\|<#!*/?\\(multipart\\|part\\|external\\|mml\\|secure\\)"))

This allows me to insert mml via the usual means and not have to worry
about a M-q moving the paragraph onto the same line as the mml tag is
on, which I found annoying.  I got that expression from
mml-quote-region, by the way, which is missing the secure tag.

Thanks,
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net

Re: paragraph separator in message mode

[Kai Großjohann]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> I've had these lines in my message-mode-hook for some time now but
> since I just noticed that I needed to make a fix to the regexp I
> wonder if it shouldn't somehow be the default behavior for
> message-mode.
>
> (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
> (setq paragraph-separate
>       (concat paragraph-separate
>               "\\|<#!*/?\\(multipart\\|part\\|external\\|mml\\|secure\\)"))

Good idea.  I've committed it.  I'm not sure if I did it right,
though.  Hm.  Semantically, it seems it should be in mml-mode?

And the concat thing is potentially dangerous.  Can it lead to a
non-working value?  Is there a regexp that will break if \\|foo is
appended to it?
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Re: paragraph separator in message mode

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> And the concat thing is potentially dangerous.  Can it lead to a
> non-working value?  Is there a regexp that will break if \\|foo is
> appended to it?

I think it would be safer if a "\\(" ... "\\)" pair were added around
each regexp that is concatenated.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: paragraph separator in message mode

[Kai Großjohann]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> And the concat thing is potentially dangerous.  Can it lead to a
>> non-working value?  Is there a regexp that will break if \\|foo is
>> appended to it?
>
> I think it would be safer if a "\\(" ... "\\)" pair were added around
> each regexp that is concatenated.

Hm.  Okay.  So do like (format "\\(%s\\)\\|\\(%s\\)" old-value new-value)?

Done.
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A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: paragraph separator in message mode

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Hm.  Okay.  So do like (format "\\(%s\\)\\|\\(%s\\)" old-value new-value)?

Yup.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen