From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 57986@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:21:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtaq2hap.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r104r2zd.fsf@melete.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:34:14 -0700")
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> In emacs -q, C-x m and put this text in the buffer:
>
>> This is some.
>>
>> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more.
>> This is more. This is more.
>
> Move point to the beginning of the second line. M-RET.
[...]
>> This is some.
>
>>
>> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is
> more.
>> This is more. This is more.
>
> The problem, in particular, is how "more" becomes unquoted.
`M-RET' uses the text before point as the prefix, so if you `M-RET' at
the end of the second line, you get
---
> This is some.
>
>
> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is
> more. This is more. This is more.
---
which is what we're aiming for. So I'm not sure whether this is a
bug -- I think this is what it's meant to do. But perhaps it should be
documented better?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-23 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-21 18:34 bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat Sean Whitton
2022-09-23 16:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-23 16:32 ` Sean Whitton
2022-09-24 9:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-24 17:21 ` Sean Whitton
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