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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:40:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org>
To: user42 <at> zip.com.au
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#744: nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:00:25 +0200 (CEST)

> > 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.

Yep.  No guessing necessary :-)

> >   .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 :-).

Scary?  Why do you think so?

> 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 ...

If you can implement this, please do.  BTW, to check whether
nroff-mode properly supports groff, you might have a look at, say,
`an-old.tmac'.


    Werner
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