bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat

[Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>]

Hello,

On Sat 24 Sep 2022 at 11:39AM +02, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@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.

Ah, interesting.  Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton