Re: Supercite/Message woes

[Fabrice Gamberini <fabrice.gamberini@wavecom.fr>]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:

     FGA>> problem description --snipped--

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

Did you try that with sc-auto-fill-region-p on ?? (I think it's C-c C-p C-t f)

Here the wrong-fill-prefix-problem seems to have disappeared after setting
sc-auto-fill-region-p to nil. This comes from re-reading the SuperCite
manual and experimenting with the stuff I didn't understand at first. Not that
I can claim to have a clear understanding of everything now, but at least it
works. Plus it doesn't auto-cite on text _between_ cited paragraphs, which I
think is a wrond thing to do, so it's actually better than what you describe,
I don't have to backspace on bl**dy indented paragraphs anymore. Me Happy.


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

    Kai> For me, blank lines delimit paragraphs, so when I type just below a SC
    Kai> 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.
    Kai> 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.

    Kai> See?
 Yes, this doesn't seem quite right to me though, it gets confusing to read,
isn't it ?
 The more I understand, the more I think this "feature" is A Bad
Thing. (sc-auto-fill, I mean)


    Kai> Maybe this is what happens to you?

Well, It might be something like this, but this happened in 2 _different_
messages, which was a source of extreme confusion and bafflement. All it took
was a single -documented though quite badly IMHO- variable  to solve this
misbehaviour.


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Thanks for looking this in.

Fabrice


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