>>> "Mosè" == Mosè Giordano <[email protected]> writes:

   > Hi Uwe,
   > 2016-09-08 10:13 GMT+02:00 Uwe Brauer <[email protected]>:
   >> A couple of questions and suggestions:
   >> 
   >> -  could anyone with knowledge of the original
   >> LaTeX-fill-region-as-paragraph try to implement  this feature
   >> without using defadvice.

   > What's the problem with `defadvice'?  It's actually pretty useful
   > because it doesn't shadow future changes to the advised function.

Right I use it for dozens of function, however it is IMHO difficult to
debug and from comments by Stefan Monnier and RMS itself I understand
its use was advised against if it was included in Emacs itself and not
some private stuff. 

   >> -  if not, could that code be included, although it uses defadvice.
   >> Of course if would then be necessary to ask for permission and to
   >> convince the author to sign the relevant FSF papers [1], which I
   >> could try to do, if the maintainer think the code should be
   >> included.

   > While I think this can be a valuable feature (but I don't use it), I'm
   > not completely persuaded we should have it in AUCTeX.  Moreover, I
   > don't think it's specific to *TeX files but can be applied to other
   > plain text-like files.

Well auctex provides its one filling engine for paragraphs, so in my
eyes it makes sense to modify it and not vanilla fill-paragraph.


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