GNU bug report logs - #56197
lisp-fill-paragraph behavior changed in Emacs 28

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Message #134 received at 56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com,
 stefankangas <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] lisp: Introduce a `lisp-fill-paragraph-as-displayed'
 variable.
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 09:22:35 +0200

> From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
> Cc: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>,  56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>   larsi <at> gnus.org,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 20:24:42 -0800
> 
> 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.

I'm okay with looking for a better name, but
fill-strings-instead-of-paragraphs doesn't sound like a better one
(and "terrible" is an exaggeration, IMO).  How about
fill-paragraph-as-doc-string, by default t?

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