Is anyone aware of a Emacs mode for enforcing this pattern? To date I’ve been relying on aggressive-fill-paragraphs-mode with fill-column set at 80 for my markdown writing, but if there’s a good way to automate this I’d be interesting to experiment with.
I have some elisp I’ve been using to write in this style…. frankly I don’t like it. Even with wrapping lines, the visual of ragged lines grates and I don’t do enough heavyweight editing to really benefit from the sentence by sentence change tracking properties. Maybe I’ll write about it some time.
Thanks. Before I saw your response I tried just turning off auto-fill-mode for editing some work documentation in reStructuredText, but I also found the ragged lines highly distracting. IMO much of the benefit of plain-text formats is that the source is relatively readable, and this mode breaks that. And thinking about it, with good diff tools providing word-diffs (example unrelated to what I was working on) I think the problem more or less goes away.
Is anyone aware of a Emacs mode for enforcing this pattern? To date I’ve been relying on aggressive-fill-paragraphs-mode with fill-column set at 80 for my markdown writing, but if there’s a good way to automate this I’d be interesting to experiment with.
Exactly the question I was going to ask, having finally found the article again :-D
I have some elisp I’ve been using to write in this style…. frankly I don’t like it. Even with wrapping lines, the visual of ragged lines grates and I don’t do enough heavyweight editing to really benefit from the sentence by sentence change tracking properties. Maybe I’ll write about it some time.
Thanks. Before I saw your response I tried just turning off auto-fill-mode for editing some work documentation in reStructuredText, but I also found the ragged lines highly distracting. IMO much of the benefit of plain-text formats is that the source is relatively readable, and this mode breaks that. And thinking about it, with good diff tools providing word-diffs (example unrelated to what I was working on) I think the problem more or less goes away.