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29.0.50; Hard newlines not respected in code comments?

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 56796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56796: 29.0.50; Hard newlines not respected in code comments?
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:50:06 +0530

[வியாழன் ஜூலை 28, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 21:19:29 +0530
>> 
>> Are hard newlines supposed to be respected when they are in code
>> comments?
>
> The answer is "it depends", AFAICS.
>
> The main problem is that fill-comment-paragraph doesn't seem to honor
> use-hard-newlines.  So any major mode whose fill-paragraph-function
> uses that for filling comments will fail to pay attention to hard
> newlines in comments.  In your scenario, if I set both
> fill-paragraph-function and fill-paragraph-handle-comment to nil, hard
> newlines in comments are honored as expected.

Thanks for the explanation, I figured that was the case.

> If we want use-hard-newlines to be supported in comments, we should
> modify fill-comment-paragraph to honor it in some way, perhaps simply
> deferring to fill-region in that case.

That would be most welcome.  Hard newlines was the "missing key" in
making writing plain text more easy and enjoyable to me.

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