Re: Patch to

[Francis Litterio]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>     The below patch enables adaptive-fill-mode to properly fill paragraphs
>     that use 'o' as a bullet, like this:
>
>       o  Testing one two three one two three one two three one two three one
>        two three one two three one two three.
>
> That result is an improvement, but I wonder if this might also
> lead to false identification of prefixes in some cases.
> I can't see, off hand, how that could happen, I just have
> a concern about it.  Does anyone else see such cases?
>
> If not, we can try it and see if it causes any problems.

I've found one case already where it causes a problem -- when filling a
long line that starts with a word beginning with 'o' or 'O', you end up
with a paragraph looking like this:

Of course, this is just a long line to demonstrate the problem.  Blah
 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
 blah blah blah blah blah.

I think the regexp can be adjusted to compensate for this, but Stefan
Monnier's objection about "o" meaning "or" in Spanish is a much more
significant problem, and probably reason to leave this patch out.

Sorry for any confusion.
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Francis Litterio
franl <at> world . std . com