Re: article body filling: fill-prefix too long for specified width

["Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs/pretest@RUM.cs.yale.edu>]

>    From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs/pretest@rum.cs.yale.edu>
>    Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:12:28 -0500
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
>    > > I have received attached e-mail, which can not be displayed in Gnus (from
>    > > CVS) running in current CVS Emacs. The message
>    > > 
>    > >      fill-prefix too long for specified width
>    > > 
>    > > is shown. fill-column is 75 in my setup. Additional details on
>    > > request. I still have this article so I can test your changes.
>    > 
>    > It must be a bug in my changes in fill.el.
>    > I can't look at it just now, so I'll get back to you later,
> 
> I do not know where the bug is, but this change from Katsumi Yamaoka
> <yamaoka@jpl.org> fixed this particular problem:
> 
> --- cut here ---
> I'm not sure of myself but I think the value of `fill-prefix'
> should be controlled by flow-fill.el, however it will be altered
> by `fill-region-as-paragraph' if it isn't specified.  Here's a
> patch for a tentative plan:
> 
> --- flow-fill.el~	2002-01-14 22:01:23.000000000 +0000
> +++ flow-fill.el	2002-03-25 12:55:36.039833946 +0000
> @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@
>  	    (end-of-line))
>  	  (unless sig
>  	    (let ((fill-prefix (when quote (concat quote " ")))
> -		  (fill-column (eval fill-flowed-display-column)))
> +		  (fill-column (eval fill-flowed-display-column))
> +		  adaptive-fill-mode)
>  	      (fill-region (fill-flowed-point-at-bol)
>  			   (min (1+ (fill-flowed-point-at-eol)) (point-max))
>  			   'left 'nosqueeze))))))))

This indeed will prevent the buggy code from running.
But it doesn't fix the bug.  Of course, the patch might still be correct
for flow-fill.el, I don't know.


	Stefan