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[PATCH] Add nosqueeze for fill-paragraph

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Message #27 received at 38665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 38665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 jefferson <at> aoeu2code.com, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#38665: [PATCH] Add nosqueeze for fill-paragraph
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 04:44:26 +0200

Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz> writes:

> My suggestion there for C-u C-u was:
>
>>>> That could mean "prompt for the fill-prefix, and use the default
>>>> column and justify values", but it might be more useful to instead
>>>> make it prompt for *everything* -- justify, fill-column,
>>>> fill-prefix, and maybe left-margin too.
>>>> The default value would be provided in each case, so you could
>>>> just RET your way past the ones you didn't want to change.
>
> I think we could blend the 'nosqueeze' option into all this, but if
> the new changes could happen in a way which wouldn't create any serious
> conflicts for the other changes I'm still hoping to get made, that
> would be grand.
>
> Or if someone is motivated, please feel free to run with what I'd
> already done.  I may have some more-recent local WIP on my other
> machine; I'll have a look for that later.

I think the idea is sound -- there's so many variations of what you'd
possibly want this command to do, so prompting seems good: Neither user
options nor adding more prefix combinations would help, I think.

If you could finish up the WIP and post the patch, that'd be great.

-- 
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