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- From: jlziegl@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Ziegler)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Jove and justification
- Summary: Quirks in the way (our) jove handles justification
- Keywords: jove, justify
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.043946.29418@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 04:39:46 GMT
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 22
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- Since I use =jove= as a quick and easy text editor, I wanted to
- modify the way it does justification to something a little more
- robust. Currently, it recognizes a paragraph break as a completely
- blank line or a line that begins with a "." (I assume for ?roff
- usage). I want it to accept something along the lines of
- "^[<space><tab>.]|^$" as the beginning/end of the paragraph. I tried
- changing the PARASTR value in the Justify() routine, but I was
- getting strange results. Then I found that even in the current
- (default?) condition, if the cursor is on the blank line between two
- paragraphs when "M-x justify" is invoked, the two paragraphs are
- justified into one.
- (a) Has this already been done, and our version of
- =jove= is just hopelessly out of date (_very_
- possible)?
- (b) If not, what might I be seeing and how do I go
- about fixing it?
-
- E-mail answers are welcomed. If the answer is significant (i.e.,
- it isn't, "What cave have _you_ been living in?"), I'll post results.
- Thanks.
- Zig
-