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lisp-fill-paragraph behavior changed in Emacs 28

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Message #131 received at 56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>, stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] lisp: Introduce a `lisp-fill-paragraph-as-displayed'
 variable.
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:24:42 -0800

Hi Eli,

On Sat, Jan 25 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Starting with Emacs 28, filling strings now happens in a
>> narrowed scope, and looses the leading indentation and can cause
>> the string to extend past the fill-column value.  Introduce
>> `lisp-fill-paragraph-as-displayed' as a new variable allowing
>> opting out of this new behavior in specific scenarios (such as
>> when using the Scheme major mode, say).

Thanks, but the name is terrible.  The name fill-paragraph-as-displayed
is the standard behavior.  It would be better to invert the logic and
call it fill-strings-instead-of-paragraphs.

Kind regards
Felix

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