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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 28 Feb 1997 13:53:23 +0100
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> The vim preformatting features described in the attached Eli's post
> really do make me drool.  Are there any plans to write something
> like that for message-mode, as `fill-paragraph' is obviously
> insufficient, even in its advanced versions, like filladapt.

For simple ">" I had never any problems using  filladapt.

> I'd like to start hacking on a good preformatting routine written in
> Lisp (specifically for preformatting news articles), so if someone
> is also doing work on this, please let me know.

Maybe you would like to consider tackeling something a bit more
advanced. For filling cited text goes what Per writes in his message,
we should make the algorithm from gnus-cite available for the
outside, such as a more advanced all purpose filling routine.

But what I think would be /really/ neat was a routine that would do
aggressively refilling _on_ _entering_ text. Someone posted something
like that to comp.source.emacs, but it had severe problems with
message mode (I think it was related with wrapping headers or such,
don't know anymore). At least it showed that this could be done with
reasonable performance. This would be a routine we would need any way
for something like XEmacs-Word :-) should this ever happen...

If I find some time I can help with this (the filling! not Word),
   
   JTL
 

