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user2076663
user2076663

Reputation: 440

emacs fill-paragraph does not respond in any mode

Somehow, I broke fill-paragraph. I'm not sure how to debug it. Here's the behavior: I have an html file with a long line with 100 characters. I want to fill the line so I hit the trusty M-q. Nothing. I inspect the fill-column variable. It is set to 79 just like I expect. I put the buffer in text mode. Still doesn't work. I try fundamental mode. Still nothing. Notably, in python mode i do get the expected behavior. Any advice?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 740

Answers (1)

user2076663
user2076663

Reputation: 440

I figured it out (knida). It seems that the line wrapping doesn't work until you have the text in some mark-up. For example, in HTML mode, this line all by itself will not wrap:

This is a long line.  Why won't it wrap?  Who knows.  Maybe today is the day that I will start learning lisp.

...and this line won't wrap either:

<p>This is a long line.  Why won't it wrap?  Who knows.  Maybe today is the day that I will start learning lisp.

...but this line does wrap:

<p>This is a long line.  And this line does wrap.  I guess it has something to do with the HTML tags.</p>

Upvotes: 1

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