Re: Supercite/Message woes

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

On 05 Oct 2000, Fabrice Gamberini wrote:

>   I have attempted a finer analysis of the problem, it really seems
>   to be lying somewhere in-between bbdb and supercite.  I tried
>   breakpointing on the filladapt paragraph functions and the
>   'fill-prefix' variable *has* the right value when I compose a
>   reply, but it is not used by whatever piece of code flows the
>   lines of text around... I think I'll send the problem to the
>   supercite mailing-list, though it seems this package hasn't been
>   updated in ages, maybe they'll have a clue.

Hm.  Hmmm...  That's quite strange.  I just did the following test: I
typed "xxx" at the beginning of a line, then hit `C-x .'.  This set
the fill-prefix to "xxx".  Then I deleted the line and started typing
on a fresh line.  And sure enough, when I reached the end of the line
and auto-fill kicked in, the second line began with "xxx".

When you turn on adaptive fill and fill-prefix is nil, then Emacs
tries to figure out a fill prefix to use from the current buffer
contents.  In particular, it looks at the beginning of the current
paragraph for a fill prefix to use.  (Normally at the second line, but
for single-line paragraphs, it also looks at the first line.)  You can
type `ESC {' and `ESC }' to go backward/forward a paragraph.  This
also tells you where Emacs thinks a paragraph starts.

For me, blank lines delimit paragraphs, so when I type just below a SC
citation, the SC citation will be reused.  Like so:

  Foo> This is an SC citation line.
  Foo> The SC citation must be at least two lines long.
And here is what I type just below that citation.  The next line will
  Foo> inherit the fill prefix from the second line of this paragraph,
  Foo> and since this paragraph starts with two SC citation lines, the
  Foo> auto-filled lines also have SC citation prefixes.

See?

Maybe this is what happens to you?

kai
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