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

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:26:22 +0200

On 17.07.19 19:47, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> On 17.07.19 16:38, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>>> "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").
>>>
>> Okay, commonly there many ways in Emacs to work around an issue, which is
>> great. But that doesn't solve it at source. By its semantic newline is unrelated
>> to filling, from there that behavior is not to expect, idiosyncratic.
> Unless you or someone else has a concrete proposal for how to fix said
> idiosyncratic behaviour in a backward-compatible way, I think that ship
> has sailed.
>
Decoupling it should not break anything. When fixed, just setting an 
auto-fill-function will no longer trigger auto-fill in case 
auto-fill-mode is off.