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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
Cc: 7987@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:50:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhbcbu0zb.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110208154418.GL22848@panix.com> (Jesse Sheidlower's message of "Tue, 8 Feb 2011 10:44:19 -0500")

> Hmm. I guess you're right, although this behavior doesn't seem to be
> mentioned in the Manual. I'm using message-mode with Mutt, so there are
> no headers in the buffer.

No headers at all?  Where's the subject, then?

> But for what it's worth, one of the Emacs maintainers did look
> this over and think it was a bug, so I'm not the only one confused.

Indeed, I naively tried M-x message-mode in *scratch* and refilled some
indented text, without paying much attention to the fact that there was
no header.

> I'll experiment further and will update if necessary. Is there a
> preferred way to tell message-mode to assume that the buffer is a
> message body, rather than a header?

Add a header.

Maybe it would be be good to make message-mode accept an empty line as
a mail-header-separator (as does rfc822-goto-eoh).


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-05  3:18 bug#7987: 23.2; Refill error in message-mode Jesse Sheidlower
2011-02-07 20:43 ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-08 15:44   ` Jesse Sheidlower
2011-02-08 19:16     ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-10 19:50     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-02-10 21:02       ` Jesse Sheidlower
2011-02-11  1:58         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11  9:46           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-11 11:06           ` Jesse Sheidlower
2011-02-11  9:41         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-11 11:14           ` Jesse Sheidlower
2011-06-30  0:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-30 20:00   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-30 20:10     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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