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bug#56796: 29.0.50; Hard newlines not respected in code comments?
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#56796: 29.0.50; Hard newlines not respected in code comments? |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:47:09 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> More generally: I'm not sure how common this pattern is but I tend to do
>
> ;; TODO/FIXME: Something...
> ;; Ideas and thoughts on how to clear it here.
>
> Now if you do M-q there, your neatly arranged text is destroyed. (I am
> probably biased) I also catch this pattern in the Emacs source tree as
> well.
It never occurred to me to use hard newlines for such cases. What I use
instead is either:
- add extra newlines to mark the paragraph boundaries to use
(that's just as easy as adding hard newlines, but requires removing
those extra newlines afterward).
- Select the intended paragraph rather than rely on M-q's automatic
decision of what's a paragraph.
Hard newlines are a good idea, for this use-case, indeed, tho it would
be even better if we could somehow represent that info in the text
itself so it's properly saved into the file.
Stefan