bug#31656: 26.1; `fill-paragraph' malformats in emacs-lisp-mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Are there no use cases where we would want M-q outside of syntactic
>> strings?
>
> Okay, I can think of one possibility: if you've pasted a long single
> line consisting of a quoted list of symbols, then M-q could be a
> convenient way of breaking it up into multiple lines.  With M-q disabled
> in Lisp code, you would need to copy the data to a temp non-lisp-mode
> buffer in order to do that, so a bit more inconvenient.

I do use `M-q' on long lists of symbols sometimes (mostly because `pp'
is so unhelpful when rendering those), so it would be annoying to see
that go.

What about just a new, simple filling method for Lisp-like text?  For
instance, if you `M-q' outside of text, it's just convert this:

(defun feedmail-default-date-generator (maybe-file)
  "Default function for generating Date: header contents."
  (feedmail-say-debug ">in-> feedmail-default-date-generator")
  (when maybe-file
    (feedmail-say-debug (concat "4 cre " (feedmail-rfc822-date (nth 4 
(file-attributes maybe-file)))))
    (feedmail-say-debug (concat "5 mod " (feedmail-rfc822-date (nth 5 (file-attr

into this:

(defun feedmail-default-date-generator (maybe-file)
  "Default function for generating Date: header contents."
  (feedmail-say-debug ">in-> feedmail-default-date-generator")
  (when maybe-file
    (feedmail-say-debug (concat "4 cre " (feedmail-rfc822-date (nth 4
(file-attributes maybe-file)))))
    (feedmail-say-debug (concat "5 mod " (feedmail-rfc822-date (nth 5
(file-attr

It'd still be wrong, but at least it wouldn't destroy the strings...

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