Re: understanding fill-region, paragraph-separate, and paragraph-start

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I haven't been able to get this right. I think the regexp I want is
>> "[^:]+: ",
>
> That looks right for paragraph-start, except you want to stay within a line:
>
>     "[^:\n]+: "
>
> You probably want it to be even more restrictive, as in
>
>     "[ \t]*[[:alpha:]]+: "

That got me to the point where my experiments started to make sense,
thank you! I am currently fooling around with fill-prefix vs
adaptive-fill-regexp, and will probably still end up with some amount of
manual man-handling, but this should end up significantly cleaner.

Thanks,
Eric