Subject: Re: bug#36702: 27.0.50; newline: don't auto-fill regardless of auto-fill-mode

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:38:55 +0100

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]> writes:

> Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> From my point of view it's not that much about the docu but about the design.
>>
>> Users should not be forced to add an extra argument to prevent auto-fill when it
>> is about a newline.
>
> Users who do not want auto-filling should not enable auto-fill-mode,
> either directly or by setting auto-fill-function.

Alternatively, users who want auto-fill-mode to ignore newlines can do
the following:

  (aset auto-fill-chars ?\C-j nil)

This is documented under (info "(elisp) Commands for Insertion") and
(info "(elisp) Auto Filling").

-- 
Basil