Filling is an operation on text that breaks long lines at word boundaries before a given column and merges shorter lines together in an attempt to make each line roughly the specified length. This is different from justification which tries to add whitespace in awkward places to make each line exactly the same length. Hemlock's filling optionally inserts a specified string at the beginning of each line. Also, it eliminates extra whitespace between lines and words, but it knows two spaces follow sentences (see section 15.3). [annotate]
These variables hold the default values of the prefix and column arguments to Hemlock's filling primitives. If Fill Prefix is nil, then there is no fill prefix. [annotate] [← 10.7 Scanning and Picking Messages, Pick Headers] [← 10.7 Scanning and Picking Messages, Message Headers] [← 7.2 Indentation, Center Line] [← 15.5 Filling, fill-region-by-paragraphs] [← 15.5 Filling, fill-region] [← 15.3 English Text Buffers, mark-paragraph] [← 15.3 English Text Buffers, paragraph-offset] |
This deletes any blank lines in region and fills it according to prefix and column. Prefix and column default to Fill Prefix and Fill Column. [annotate] |
This finds paragraphs (see section 15.3) within region and fills them with fill-region. This ignores blank lines between paragraphs. Prefix and column default to Fill Prefix and Fill Column. [annotate] |