bug#55040: 29.0.50; Auto-indent-mode and Changelog Messages

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: 55040@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:08:20 +0000
>> 
>> > I always use auto-fill-mode in ChangeLog buffers, and it never does
>> > anything like what you described for me.  Can you show a recipe
>> > starting from "emacs -Q" that shows this problem?
>> 
>> 1. Start emacs -Q
>> 2. Open any versioned file
>> 3. Make any modification
>> 4. Prepare a commit using C-x v v
>> 5. Go to the commit body and insert ChangeLog template
>> 6. Ensure that auto-fill-mode is enabled in the buffer
>> 7. Type anything until the fill-column is reached
>> 
>> I did 7. by just repeating the word "word", and after a short while it
>> auto-filled the line and the text appeared formatted as described above.
>
> Can you elaborate on Step 5?  I don't think I understand what I'm
> supposed to do there.

This should be enough:

* M->           (end-of-buffer)
* C-c C-w       (log-edit-generate-changelog-from-diff)

> Thanks.

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic