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`fill-paragraph' works differently depending on whether Emacs is run in batch mode or not

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From: Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev <at> gmail.com>
To: 59201 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59201: `fill-paragraph' works differently depending on whether Emacs is run in batch mode or not
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:40:25 +0100

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Tested with Emacs 28 and a recent Emacs 29 build.

To reproduce:

    $ emacs --batch --eval "(princ (with-temp-buffer (insert \"Lorem ipsum
dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...\n\") (set-mark 1)
(fill-paragraph nil t) (buffer-string)) 'external-debugging-output)"

Prints the text in one line, i.e. `fill-paragraph' appears to have done
nothing.

If you replace `--batch' in the command line with `-Q' without changing
*anything* else:

    $ emacs -Q --eval "(princ (with-temp-buffer (insert \"Lorem ipsum dolor
sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut
labore et dolore magna aliqua...\n\") (set-mark 1) (fill-paragraph nil t)
(buffer-string)) 'external-debugging-output)"

the output in the console becomes formatted in two lines, i.e.
`fill-paragraph' does its work.

In both cases the code is exactly the same and the function is called
non-interactively. The only difference, as far as I see, is the batch mode.

Paul

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