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bug#744: nroff-mode auto-fill-mode not on directives
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
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