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Re: Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Not taking indented text with fill-paragraph |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:08:01 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) |
Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
> I have often some text like the folowing:
>
> First some text which is a description of the list that follows the
> text:
> item 1
> item 2
> item 3
> item 4
>
> Sometimes you change something an you get:
>
> First some initial text which is a description of the list that follows the
> text:
> item 1
> item 2
> item 3
> item 4
>
> When using M-q you get:
>
> First some initial text which is a description of the list that follows
> the text: item 1 item 2 item 3 item 4
>
> But I would prefer:
>
> First some initial text which is a description of the list that follows
> the text:
> item 1
> item 2
> item 3
> item 4
>
> Is there a way to change the behaviour of fill-paragraph?
Yes. Keep an empty line inserted between paragraphs and lists. The
correct way to format such text is (as testified for example by reST):
First some initial text which is a description of the list that
follows the text:
- item 1
- item 2
- item 3
- item 4
> One solution is to mark the text which is the description, before giving
> M-q, but I would prefer a solution where this is not necessary. ;-}
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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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