bug#22847: #17062: 24.3 current-fill-column breaks fill-match-adaptive-prefix

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> +** Setting fill-columns to nil is obsolete.
>> +This undocumented use of fill-columns is now obsolete.  If you have
>> +set this value to nil disable auto filling, stop setting this variable
>> +and disable auto-fill-mode in the relevant mode instead.
>
> Skimming this thread, this patch makes sense to me, I think?  But it was
> never applied?

There might be a subtle problem with it after all but I can't remember
the details now.

This code is a little bit more tricky than what first meets the eye, I
think.  So I would suggest someone takes a closer look before
installing.