Re: bulleting and numbering paragraphs in messages

[Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca>]

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