Subject: bug#68418: refill-mode interferes with org-mode headlines

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:11:28 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> `fill-region-as-paragraph' itself is not a problem.
>> The problem is that calling `fill-region-as-paragraph' directly does not
>> make sense in Org buffers - it will break the markup.
>
> You are basically saying that refill-mode makes no sense in Org
> buffers, right?  If fill-region-as-paragraph cannot be factored and/or
> provide hooks for Org to customize it, then Org users should be told
> not to use refill-mode in Org buffers.

No. refill-mode could make use of `fill-paragraph-function' rather than
calling `fill-region-as-paragraph' directly.

Look at the docstring:

(defun refill-fill-paragraph-at (pos &optional arg)
  "Like `fill-paragraph' at POS, but don't delete whitespace at paragraph end."

If `refill-fill-paragraph-at' is "like fill-paragraph", how come it does
not respect `fill-paragraph-function'?
If the goal is to preserve the whitespace at paragraph end, that
whitespace could be stored and re-applied after calling `fill-paragraph'.

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