Hi Felix,
>In version 3.1.38-1 on stable, block reformatting sometimes changes
>the content when the first character in the second line is either an
>asterisk or a slash. Here is how to produce it:
this is, unfortunately, by design.
>The same thing happens when the slash is altered into an asterisk
>before the two words are combined. Perhaps it is a feature related to
>bullet points, but I did not expect the results.
It is a feature related to comments in programming languages. If
the lines begin with characters usually used as comment characters
in those languages, they are kept at the beginning (same as when
one of the lines begins with space or so).
As a workaround (sorry I cannot give you the jmacs shortcuts, as
I only use the jupp flavour) you can first select the block and
replace (‘rk’ in the second prompt) all newlines ‘\n’ with spaces,
then reformat.
(Do also note that the format (^[q) command, as opposed to the
fmtblk command (not mapped in jmacs), also only really works well
if you have an empty line above and below the to-be-reformatted
lines because otherwise, even if they begin with, say, asterisks,
they will be taken as part of the line, due to the above.)
>Thanks for providing a nifty little editor with UTF-8 support!
Thank you for the feedback! This always makes maintainers happy
(though most of the credits, of course, go to the original author
Joe Allen).
If I add some caveat documenting this to the manpage, can we
close this? (I’ll figure out the exact set of characters affected.)
bye,
//mirabilos
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