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nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives

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To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Subject: bug#744: marked as done (nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives)

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regarding nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:30:41 +1000

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In nroff-mode it'd be good if auto-fill-mode didn't fill when you're
entering a long directive line like

    .IP some long line going past your normal fill width ...

Almost always *roff directives have to be a single line.  I struck the
problem with a groff .URL with a long url doubled-up to both display
literally and be clickable in -Thtml.

I've been using the regexp below, which suppresses auto-fill on .IP and
the like, but continues to auto-fill the comment directives (no change)

    .\"    traditional
    .\#    groff extension
    '''    another traditional, apparently

And of course non-directive lines ("." or "'") are still auto-filled
(either ordinary text, or comments starting \" and \#).


2008-08-18  Kevin Ryde  <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

	* textmodes/nroff-mode.el (nroff-mode): Set auto-fill-inhibit-regexp
	so as not to auto-fill on directive lines, other than comment
	directives.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Cc: 744-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:25:01 -0400

> In nroff-mode it'd be good if auto-fill-mode didn't fill when you're
> entering a long directive line

Thanks.  I've checked your patch in.

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