Stefan Monnier [03/Jul 3:28pm -04] wrote: >> fill-region-as-paragraph is an interactive function. >> It is very strange for me that calling it interactively requires the >> user to select region within a single paragraph and nothing >> else. > > I think even the above statement is the result of a misunderstanding: > the region passed to `fill-region-as-paragraph` can be *anything*. > It should just correspond to what the user wants to treat as > a single paragraph. IOW, it's used specifically when the "builtin" > notion of paragraph doesn't match what the user needs.
Exactly. >> Especially "regardless what ... human brain looking at this may think". >> If Emacs command is counter-intuitive, what kind of command is it? > > What behavior would you find more intuitive? > IOW, how would you change its behavior to make it more intuitive? > > AFAIK, it's fairly unusual to call `fill-region-as-paragraph` > interactively, comparing to uses of `fill-region` or `fill-paragraph`. I think users who know of it probably use it a fair bit (I have a global binding for it and felt its lack for a long time before discovering it). -- Sean Whitton
