Re: [vile] Some issues/features

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 05:17:16AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > > 1. Reformatting in bulleted lists.
> > >
> > > I often write a paragraph for some list item as follows:
> > >
> > > * This is a nice piece of text in a bulleted list
> > >   and this is the next line and there is even more
> > >   on the next line but that doesn't really matter.
> > >
> > > But when I try to reformat the region using ^A-f, I get:
> > >
> > > * This is a nice piece of text in a bulleted list and this is the next
> > >   * line and there is even more on the next line but that doesn't
> > >   * really matter.
> >
> > Offhand, I'd think the place to tweak this is here:
> >
> >    comment-prefix=^\s*\(\(\s*[#*>]\)\|\(///*\)\)\+
> >
> > The relevant chunk of code seems to be the first part of this:
> >
> > [snip...]
> >
> > Essentially what it's trying to do is to replicate the part of the
> > previous line that matches the comment-prefix pattern onto the next
> > line.  The other two parts of the chunk could be improved by adding
> > modes to enable/disable those.
>
> Maybe this can be tied in with cmode?

perhaps (though cmode seems to be for indent/tab treatment).

> > > 2. The wrapmargin/fillcol settings.
> > >
> > > [snip...]
> > >
> > > This is some sentence that is supposed to be longer than 75 characters
> > > to illustrate my example.
> > >
> > > and I reformat it, I get a
> > >
> > > This is some sentence that is supposed to be longer than 75 characters to kind 
> > > of ilillustrate my example.
> > >
> > > which puzzles me?
> >
> > I'm puzzled here - sounds as if the line is not being wrapped in the
> > result.
>
> Actually, I should have given a stronger example.  If I make the line
> long enough it is wrapped.  I tested with fillcol=0 and wrapmargin=-75;
> then it wraps at 157 (??) characters.

sounds odd (will check, see if I can reproduce this...)

> > > 3. Text format flowed/fixed
> > >
> > > This is mainly inspired by RFC 2646.
> > > Mostly, I write text in a fixed format.  A paragraph contains of several
> > > lines that fill 80 columns maximum (preferably 75) each and is ended
> > > with an empty line (2 times LF).  This works for example great for
> > > LaTeX.  However, I sometimes coauthor a document with someone who uses
> > > the flowed format.  This means a paragraph is a long line that is not
> > > wrapped and ended with LF (or CRLF).
> >
> > yes - this was something that I intended looking at - and 9.8's out,
> > so it would be nice to start working on this feature.  That, and
> > working on a different X driver were my current plan.
>
> Cool!  Thanks. :)

no problem (the flowed stuff would mostly be in an area that's handling
wrapping of multicolumn characters, which I didn't want to break right 
away...)

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