Re: message-newline-and-reformat - changed (buggy?) behavior

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message mode, prior to Oort Gnus v0.01, if I pressed M-q (which
> invokes (message-newline-and-reformat t) in the 1st position of the
> 1st line of the following text (paragraph):
> 
> > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> the whole paragraph got formatted and quoted properly:
> 
> > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> - which was exactly what I wanted. Now, the text looks like this:
> 
> > blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> > blah
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
> 
> - which looks weird and not very useful. OTOH, if I press M-Enter
> instead (which invokes same message-newline-and-reformat but w/out the
> argument that tells not to insert newlines), I still get the old
> (correct IMHO) result (with 4 newlines inserted as per the doc).

There are newlines between blah lines, which means that the first line
is quoted text, and the other two are not.  In oGnus, M-q only
reformats within one type of text, so the behavior is right.  If you
don't like the behavior, bind M-q to fill-paragraph.

ShengHuo

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