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29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat

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Message #16 received at 57986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Cc: 57986 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when
 message-newline-and-reformat
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 11:39:36 +0200

Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:

> Yeah, the docstring sounds like do-what-I-mean reformatting, not
> something more specific that cares about exactly where point is in the
> line.  (I'd still advocate for changing it -- is there any use for this
> command aside from splitting up quoted text like this?)

No, but point determines what to use as the quote prefix, and that makes
some difference if you have variations on

>> Foo bar
>>> Foo bar zot

etc -- it uses the bit before point to find the prefix.  And if you look
at the code, it's explicitly checking whether we're at bolp to disable
that logic.

I've played around a bit hitting `M-RET' at various places, and I think
that what it does probably makes sense, even if it's not totally
intuitive, so I've just clarified this in the doc string instead of
changing what it's doing.

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