For what it's worth. This bugged me too. I have been doing the following for the past 15 years. Control backslash is much easier to deal with. It's become almost automatic, and it certainly doesn't cost any time.
(global-set-key "\C-\\" 'fill-paragraph) Alan D On Nov 15, 2007 9:54 AM, Ralf Angeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Geoffrey Smith (2007-11-15) writes: > > > Thank you for the reply. The problem arises specifically when I am > > editing a paragraph that I have already typed. For example, if the > > first line of my paragraph takes up 118 spaces, and I insert another > > word into it, such as "Stallman," the first line of the paragraph > > does not wrap. The first line of the paragraph will now be 126 > > long, even though the fill-column width is set to 120, and even if > > word-wrapping is enabled. > > The advantage of this behavior is that the paragraph does not jitter > all the time while you are typing. > > > To correctly format the paragraph, after making my changes, I have > > been hitting M-q. The command M-q wraps each line of the paragraph > > to 120. I am hoping to not have to use M-q all the time. > > Then use Refill mode as described in the Emacs manual. > > -- > Ralf > > > > _______________________________________________ > auctex mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex > -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
