From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-fill in message mode filling with prefix "> " Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 08:34:36 -0800 Message-ID: <87k1x0w76r.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87a7xwjkl8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1514910956 18992 195.159.176.226 (2 Jan 2018 16:35:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 16:35:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 02 17:35:52 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPXT-00044p-06 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:35:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPZQ-000649-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41550) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPYj-000629-5w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPYf-0003I1-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47124 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPYf-0003HU-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:36:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eWPWa-0000fA-TA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:34:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ssGN0GG6rmtUpmDe0FxR0iwPEXM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115530 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > Hello, > > I use emacs snapshot on Debian. Recently, but cannot say when exactly, > my email composition has started behaving strangely with respect to > auto-fill mode. Specifically, if I'm responding to an email, as I type, > long lines get auto-filled with "> " as the prefix. The first line of > the paragraph does *not* start with "> " and I usually have at least one > blank line between the paragraph I am typing and any included text from > the original email. There was a thread not too long ago about this, but now I can't for the life of me find it. I only glanced over the thread (I saw this problem, too, but only once or twice), but my impression was that someone had figured it out. I think if you just wait a bit, the fix will come down to you. Sorry to be unhelpful... Eric