GNU bug report logs - #22847
#17062: 24.3 current-fill-column breaks fill-match-adaptive-prefix

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>

Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 07:33:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Merged with 17062

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #32 received at 22847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 22847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#22847: #17062: 24.3 current-fill-column breaks
 fill-match-adaptive-prefix
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 08:29:49 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:
>
>> +** Setting fill-columns to nil is obsolete.
>> +This undocumented use of fill-columns is now obsolete.  If you have
>> +set this value to nil disable auto filling, stop setting this variable
>> +and disable auto-fill-mode in the relevant mode instead.
>
> Skimming this thread, this patch makes sense to me, I think?  But it was
> never applied?

There might be a subtle problem with it after all but I can't remember
the details now.

This code is a little bit more tricky than what first meets the eye, I
think.  So I would suggest someone takes a closer look before
installing.
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