ParagraphFilling

From Niki

NEdit's fill paragraph command (Ctrl+J) is rather primitive. Here are a couple of improvement options:

• JoFi's fill_paragraph - Pure macro based solution which handles email quoting
• JoFi has also made a nice macro for using the external formatting tool http://nedit.gmxhome.de/macros/better_fill_par.nm

• Improvements at http://volker.dnsalias.net/soft/nedit/better_fill_par.nm
  • Turned into a callable function
  • Post-operation cursor position and selection status compatible with ^J (for none and simple selection, not yet for rectangular selection)

Ideally the actual builtin formatter should be improved, but macros are a nice way to prototype and tweak the behaviour until we find something good enough to move into code. This page is a natural place to archive this activity.

• Joachim's fillParagraph proposal - not implemented, just an idea for an algorithm