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Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

> E.g. the text in following attachment.
>
> It fills fine with M-x fill-paragraph, but longlines-mode doesn't seem
> to do anything (it remains one long line).

This is a rather difficult case to make Longlines mode handle.  (Btw,
fill-paragraph doesn't do a perfect job either -- if you refill with a
different fill-column, it inserts spurious spaces where the newlines
had previously been inserted after ascii characters.)

I'll look into it, but it may take a while...