Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!paris.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: SPC in auto-fill-mode Message-ID: Date: 24 May 89 19:02:31 GMT References: <8905240322.AA13606@paris.Berkeley.EDU> <40405@bbn.COM> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: gnu Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 23 In-reply-to: jr@bbn.com's message of 24 May 89 14:11:27 GMT In article <40405@bbn.COM> jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) writes: Yeah, but M-q is pretty easy to type. If you don't want to stick the long line to its neighbors, type C-@ C-a M-g for 3 characters. If you have to preserve whitespace within the line but break it anyway, then C-x ( SPC DEL C-U 4 0 C-x ) for 9 characters (erasing all the spaces to boot). The do-auto-fill function which eventually gets called by SPC contains no loops, whereas the fill-region family must. I think the slowdown of calling the latter every SPC might be a bit gruesome. So I'd vote to leave things as they are. Who types 3000-character lines anyway? :-) M-q fills the paragraph. I don't want to fill the paragraph; I want to make the damned line fit on the screen. I most often have this problem when joining two lines, and then wanting to split the new (single) line to fit within fill-column. -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland Copyright 1989 Roland McGrath, under the GNU General Public License, version 1.