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29.0.50; Auto-indent-mode and Changelog Messages

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, 55040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55040: 29.0.50; Auto-indent-mode and Changelog Messages
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:36:06 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> > Looks like just turning off adaptive-fill-mode is enough to solve your
>> > problem.
>> 
>> Should it be disabled for log-edit-mode in general?
>
> Maybe.  I'd be interested in hearing opinions of others, since
> different projects have different conventions wrt this.
>
> Also, log-edit-mode doesn't turn on auto-fill-mode by default, so
> maybe the change you propose should only be in effect if the user does
> turn on auto-fill.

I think having adaptive-fill-mode switched off would be an improvement
when doing ChangeLog-like commits, but I'm not sure that it's a good
idea in general.

If we could instead make the adaptive filling smarter (and discover that
we're doing a ChangeLog-like paragraph), that would be better, I think?

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