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bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reform
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From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Subject: |
bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat |
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Date: |
Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:21:02 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> In emacs -q, C-x m and put this text in the buffer:
>
>> This is some.
>>
>> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more.
>> This is more. This is more.
>
> Move point to the beginning of the second line. M-RET.
[...]
>> This is some.
>
>>
>> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is
> more.
>> This is more. This is more.
>
> The problem, in particular, is how "more" becomes unquoted.
`M-RET' uses the text before point as the prefix, so if you `M-RET' at
the end of the second line, you get
---
> This is some.
>
>
> This is more. This is more. This is more. This is more. This is
> more. This is more. This is more.
---
which is what we're aiming for. So I'm not sure whether this is a
bug -- I think this is what it's meant to do. But perhaps it should be
documented better?