On 25 October 1999 at 02:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] told the list:
AM>>>> But Mark, many have mentioned this problem before and have been
AM>>>> told that it's a feature and not a bug. ;-)
MDP>>> Yes, but not to an accurate definition of how to fix it. I think we
MDP>>> can achieve this from here.
TF> So, Marck, you want to redefine "paragraph": a new paragraph starts
TF> if there are two CR/LF pairs .OR. the new line is a quote.
It's not a new definition for the TB editor by any means. If you have
a-f off and two consecutive paragraphs with *no* blank lines but
different quotes, then a manual reformat *will* see the different
quotes as the end of the first paragraph. Try it.
So why doesn't a-f know to do the same?
OS>> Well, I wrote about that also, and I still can't see, why that should
OS>> be a feature in any way. But it's very easy to resolve. It should be
OS>> an option to select whether to use one or two newlines as a paragraph
OS>> separation.
TF> What Marck quite rightly said at that time is that a CR is a CR; in
TF> ASCII, there is no distinction between hard and soft CR. This shut me
TF> up, because you need another indicator, flag or whatever to tell a-f
TF> when it should wrap the next line into the character and when not.
Correct. I did say this and it remains true.
What I have now noticed is the above improved definition /which is
already in there somewhere/. :-/
Actually, if the guys at RIT Labs can clean up the behaviour of a-f
around quotes, I reckon its' behaviour would be nigh on perfect. I
always leave an extra line between two paragraphs and can quickly chop
apart ones I didn't mean to join up. It's the mess it makes of quotes
that is the real bugbear of the feature.
Cheers,
Marck
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