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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #158 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, 02 Feb 2025 18:23:15 +0200

> From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
> Cc: maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com,  56197 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  larsi <at> gnus.org,
>   stefankangas <at> gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 07:29:58 -0800
> 
> Hi Eli,
> 
> On Sat, Feb 01 2025, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, I renamed the variable.
> 
> There may have been an oversight.  Do you prefer the 'as' preposition
> over 'in'? [1] It does not sound like standard English to me.

This is not about preferences.  "As" is correct because we apply the
rules of a doc string.  "In" would be correct if we were talking about
filling doc strings and them only, which is not the case here.
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