Hi, Richard! On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> In printed material, sentences and paragraphs can (and frequently > do) start on one page and finish on the next. >That's because the pages are broken automatically. >That's not how people normally use ^L in files they edit. >Could you tell me more about the files you are editing >and why they have ^L in the middle of paragraphs? I haven't had any trouble with any actual file. It was more a philosophical thing that occurred to me whilst documenting pages, paragraphs and sentences in @node Standard Regexps in searching.texi. I was wondering about the motivation for having paragraphs and sentences constrained to be within single pages. This is surely something which _can't_ be changed now. If the defaults of paragraph-s\(tart\|eparate\) were changed to allow paragraphs to span pages, then lots of little things would stop working. But this is one way in which Emacs's pages/paragraphs/sentences don't correspond with what people might expect, and I think I should write a bit about it into the documentation, also telling hackers how to set things up to have paragraphs spanning page breaks. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
