Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: [Docutils-checkins] r4069 - in trunk/docutils: docs/user/emacs.txt tools/editors/emacs/rst.el

[Martin B. <bl...@fu...>]

On 11/18/05, David Goodger <go...@py...> wrote:
>
> Martin, what do you think of the current state of paragraph-start
> hacking?

It's very ugly.

There is a way to make variables automatically become buffer-local
when set, but there are some subtleties to it, and I don't have time
to test it right now (and if I don't have time to test, I'd rather not
change it, I *hate* untested code, it's a big waste of time).

For now, I think we should simply have two variables that the user
sets whichever way he likes, here is what I use right now:

(setq paragraph-start "\f\\|>*[ \t]*$"
      paragraph-separate "\f\\|>*[ \t]*$\\|>*[ \t]*[-+*] \\|>*[ \t]*[0-9]+\=
\. ")

I think for now we should just back off until there is time to look
into all the issues, perhaps even retract the paragraph-* that is
currently there (it's a bad example).

cheers,