GNU bug report logs - #7987
message-mode perhaps to document more that it expects mail-header-separator

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Jesse Sheidlower <jester <at> panix.com>

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 03:18:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Merged with 8594

Found in version 23.2

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 7987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org
Subject: bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:01 -0400
>> In message-mode, there is an error in the fill command when you try to
>> refill indented (blockquoted) paragraphs. Instead of filling the
>> indented paragraph in-place, it removes empty lines before and after the
>> blockquote, indents the first line further, and then indents the second
>> and subsequent lines further still, leading to a mess.

> I've now changed `message-point-in-header-p' to return nil if there's no
> header separator at all.  I think this should make your use case work
> better, without leading to any other problems.

Hmm... so message-mode now won't recognize an RFC2822-format buffer
(i.e. with an empty line as header separator)?  That would seem like
a more important use-case then the "no header" case.


        Stefan




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