Stefan Monnier [03/Jul  3:28pm -04] wrote:
>> fill-region-as-paragraph is an interactive function.
>> It is very strange for me that calling it interactively requires the
>> user to select region within a single paragraph and nothing
>> else.
>
> I think even the above statement is the result of a misunderstanding:
> the region passed to `fill-region-as-paragraph` can be *anything*.
> It should just correspond to what the user wants to treat as
> a single paragraph.  IOW, it's used specifically when the "builtin"
> notion of paragraph doesn't match what the user needs.

Exactly.

>> Especially "regardless what ... human brain looking at this may think".
>> If Emacs command is counter-intuitive, what kind of command is it?
>
> What behavior would you find more intuitive?
> IOW, how would you change its behavior to make it more intuitive?
>
> AFAIK, it's fairly unusual to call `fill-region-as-paragraph`
> interactively, comparing to uses of `fill-region` or `fill-paragraph`.

I think users who know of it probably use it a fair bit (I have a global
binding for it and felt its lack for a long time before discovering it).

-- 
Sean Whitton

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