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24.2.50; mail-abbrev fills long aliasee uglily

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From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
To: 12439-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12439: 24.2.50; mail-abbrev fills long aliasee uglily
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:16:21 +0900

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> wrote:
> By default message.el uses mail-abbrev to expand mail aliases in
> headers in a draft.  If an aliasee is longer than fill-column,
> it will be expanded like the following:

> To: foo1 <at> bar.baz, foo2 <at> bar.baz, foo3 <at> bar.baz, foo4 <at> bar.baz,
>     foo5 <at> bar.baz,
>     foo6 <at> bar.baz,
>     foo7 <at> bar.baz,
>     foo8 <at> bar.baz

> To reproduce this, try the "foo" alias specified as follows:

> (define-mail-abbrev "foo"
>   "foo1 <at> bar.baz, foo2 <at> bar.baz, foo3 <at> bar.baz, foo4 <at> bar.baz,\
>  foo5 <at> bar.baz, foo6 <at> bar.baz, foo7 <at> bar.baz, foo8 <at> bar.baz")

> The point is that the latter half addresses in an aliasee are
> put line by line.  Moreover, I think a SPC is enough for LWSP
> preceding to the latter half (message.el uses TAB in some fill
> function, though), rather than the one indent-relative generates.

> A patch I tried is attached below.

I've installed my patch to the trunk.

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