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message-mode perhaps to document more that it expects mail-header-separator

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:10:11 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> 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.

I use an empty line as a separator, and `M-q' and friends work for me in
all my use cases.  But it's certainly possible that I've missed some.

Using an empty line as a separator, and then not including any headers
in the buffer doesn't work, though.  Eurhm.  That wasn't the original
author's use case, was it?  I assumed that he had a buffer starting with

  --- text follows etc etc ---

with no headers before that...

If not, yeah, you're right -- message mode just isn't meant to be used
like that.

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