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[PATCH] Add semantic linefeed support for paragraph filling

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eliz <at> gnu.org, Roi Martin <jroi.martin <at> gmail.com>, 78561 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#78561: [PATCH] Add semantic linefeed support for paragraph filling
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 06:44:21 +0000

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I think that `fill-region-as-paragraph-function' is a step in the right
>> direction. What is left is handling `use-hard-newlines'. Currently, Org
>> mode ignores it as the concept of hard newlines is not compatible with
>> Org mode syntax and its notion of paragraphs. So, we probably need to
>> have a way to bypass that branch in `fill-paragraph' or find some way to
>> handle hard newlines that is compatible with Org mode and then Emacs
>> introduce a new customization for Org to plug into.
>
> I don't understand: `use-hard-newlines` is nil by default and org mode
> doesn't seem to set it, so those users who set it ... get what they deserve?

"what they deserve" is not nice to users. There is some usefulness to a
proper Org-specific hard newline support. See
https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87pmftqkf1.fsf <at> gmail.com/
(specifically, item 2).

What i am asking about is providing some way in `fill-region' to control
how hard newlines are handled for major modes.  Not just making it call
Roi's `fill-region-as-paragraph-function` instead of
`fill-region-as-paragraph'.

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