Allow adjusting the `W Q' Gnus summary command interactively

* doc/misc/gnus.texi (Article Washing): Document it.

* lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (article-fill-long-lines): Take a numeric
prefix as the fill width (bug#38698).

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
index 294d9590bc9..2f4bc0cbf85 100644
--- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi
@@ -9060,6 +9060,9 @@ when filling.
 @findex gnus-article-fill-long-lines
 Fill long lines (@code{gnus-article-fill-long-lines}).
 
+You can give the command a numerical prefix to specify the width to use
+when filling.
+
 @item W C
 @kindex W C @r{(Summary)}
 @findex gnus-article-capitalize-sentences
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 7fbe63013e8..7c6c9fe2620 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -213,6 +213,10 @@ The names of the commands 'gnus-slave', 'gnus-slave-no-server' and
 'gnus-slave-unplugged' have changed to 'gnus-child',
 'gnus-child-no-server' and 'gnus-child-unplugged' respectively.
 
++++
+*** The 'W Q' summary mode command now takes a numerical prefix to
+allow adjusting the fill width.
+
 ---
 *** Change to default value of 'message-draft-headers' user option.
 The 'Date' symbol has been removed from the default value, meaning that
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
index 0c0c1bd0c0e..3cba4ecead9 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
@@ -2303,21 +2303,27 @@ long lines if and only if arg is positive."
                 "\n")
         (put-text-property start (point) 'gnus-decoration 'header)))))
 
-(defun article-fill-long-lines ()
-  "Fill lines that are wider than the window width or `fill-column'."
-  (interactive)
+(defun article-fill-long-lines (&optional width)
+  "Fill lines that are wider than the window width or `fill-column'.
+If WIDTH (interactively, the numeric prefix), use that as the
+fill width."
+  (interactive "P")
   (save-excursion
-    (let ((inhibit-read-only t)
-          (width (window-width (get-buffer-window (current-buffer)))))
+    (let* ((inhibit-read-only t)
+           (window-width (window-width (get-buffer-window (current-buffer))))
+           (width (if width
+                      (prefix-numeric-value width)
+                    (min fill-column window-width))))
       (save-restriction
         (article-goto-body)
         (let ((adaptive-fill-mode nil)) ;Why?  -sm
           (while (not (eobp))
             (end-of-line)
-            (when (>= (current-column) (min fill-column width))
+            (when (>= (current-column) width)
               (narrow-to-region (min (1+ (point)) (point-max))
                                 (point-at-bol))
-              (let ((goback (point-marker)))
+              (let ((goback (point-marker))
+                    (fill-column width))
                 (fill-paragraph nil)
                 (goto-char (marker-position goback)))
               (widen))