Yes, that's correct. Sorry for getting that wrong in my initial description
of the bug. That's the same as the indentation behavior with auto-fill-mode
disabled. A hanging indent is not assumed with only one line.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:49 AM, <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Samuel Freilich <sfreilich@google.com> writes:
>
> > $ emacs -Q -l markdown-mode.el
> > M-x markdown-mode RET
> > M-x auto-fill-mode RET
> > M-x set-fill-column RET 5 RET
> >
> > Type the following into the buffer and hit RET:
> > * Item
> >
> > Actual result:
> > *
> >   Item
> >   [cursor]
> >
> > Expected result:
> > * Item
> >   [cursor]
>
> With the patch I get
>
> * Item
> [cursor]
>
> i.e, the cursor lands in column 0.  Is it correct?
>