hjanssen@cbnewse.ATT.COM (hank janssen) (11/22/89)
Does anybody out there knows or has a lisp library function call somewhere that will automaticly (or via a keystroke) perfectly fill a paragraph i am editing. It seems that fill-paragraph does not do what i want it to do. If you wonder what i mean with filling a paragraph than just look at this piece of text. Thanx Hank Janssen. -----------------------------------------------+---------------------- It's better to burn out than to fade away......| uucp: Movie The HighLander. | ...att!ihlpb!hjanssen -----------------------------------------------+----------------------
mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) (11/24/89)
The fill-paragraph function will justify if you give it a argument. This
is an example of doing a fill paragraph with an argument... I hope it is
want you want.
/Bob...
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{...}!rutgers!mende mende@cs.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnetashwin@gatech.edu (Ashwin Ram) (12/05/89)
In article <49028@bbn.COM> John Robinson writes: > Ashwin Ram has a much improved version of justify-current-line, which > is due to get into the distribution some day. He sent it to me but I > didn't keep a copy. Perhaps he will post it here. I've gotten a couple of requests for this, so here goes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ; Rewrote to spread blanks evenly across inter-word spaces in line. Randomly ; decide whether to put extra spaces from the right or the left, to avoid ; "rivers" as far as possible. Don't modify original interword spaces. ; Ashwin Ram, 11/16/87. (defun justify-current-line () "Add spaces to line point is in, so it ends at fill-column." (interactive) (save-excursion (save-restriction (beginning-of-line) (skip-chars-forward " \t") (let ((begin (point))) (end-of-line) (narrow-to-region begin (point)) (let ((blanks (- fill-column (current-column)))) (if (<= blanks 0) nil (goto-char begin) (let ((holes 0)) (while (re-search-forward "[ \t][^ \t]" nil t) (setq holes (+ holes 1))) (let ((each (/ blanks holes)) (extra (% blanks holes)) (dir (> (random) 0)) (count 1)) (end-of-line) (while (<= count holes) (re-search-backward "[ \t][^ \t]") (let ((n 1)) (while (<= n each) (insert ? ) (setq n (+ n 1)))) (if dir (if (<= count extra) (insert ? )) (if (>= count (- holes (- extra 1))) (insert ? ))) (setq count (+ count 1))))))))))) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Ashwin (ashwin@gatech.edu) -- Ashwin Ram Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 UUCP: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!ar17 Internet: ashwin@gatech.edu, ashwin@pravda.gatech.edu, ar17@prism.gatech.edu