GNU bug report logs - #744
nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives

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From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#744: nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:29:57 +1000

Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> The real groff extension is that `\#' at the beginning of a line
> completely removes it:

Ah yes, so I guess .\# ends up as another flavour of empty directive.

>   .IP This is a long title \
>   continued on the next line.

I guess you'd definitely want that for very long lines.  Might be a bit
scary doing it all the time though :-).  makefile-mode has a
backslashing fill-paragraph for long variables lines, maybe something
similar could be worked in for a fill of a long directive line ...

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