To recreate the bug, in Python mode, type def f(): r""" This is the docstring for my function. It's a raw docstring because I want to type \t here, and maybe \n, for example in LaTeX code like \tau or \nu. More docstring here. """ pass Now with the cursor in the first sentence of the docstring, running fill-paragraph ignores the setting of python-fill-docstring-style, I think because Emacs doesn't detect that r""" is the start of the docstring. Similarly, running fill-paragraph in the last sentence behaves badly. Also similarly, I think that it should be valid to begin a docstring with b""" or u""" (and possibly some combination of b, r, u, before """, although I'm not sure), and these also don't behave correctly. In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2015-04-10 on builder10-9.porkrind.org Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1348 Configured using: `configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/site-lisp'' Important settings: value of $LANG: C locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Outline Minor modes in effect: goto-address-mode: t TeX-PDF-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t auto-fill-function: do-auto-fill transient-mark-mode: t view-mode: t