message-fill-paragraph seems not to work

message-fill-paragraph seems not to work

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

While message-fill-yanked-message seems to work fine I can't say the
same for message-fill-paragraph.

The doc says

--8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8---
`message-fill-paragraph' is an interactive compiled Lisp function
  -- loaded from "message"
(message-fill-paragraph &optional ARG)

Documentation:
Like `fill-paragraph'.

--8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8---

But if I have lines like
this
and

And fire up the function nothing happens, while fill-paragraph
returns


But if I have lines like this and

And if I use a prefix it would justify the
paragraph. Message-fill-paragraph does nothing of that sort.

Uwe Brauer

Re: message-fill-paragraph seems not to work

[Romain Francoise]

`message-fill-paragraph' is not meant to be called directly, it's used
as the value of `fill-paragraph-function' in Message buffers; there are
normal cases where it does nothing and returns nil.  The docstring is
somewhat confusing, I'll clarify it.

-- 
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | I've become someone else's
it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | nightmare...

Re: message-fill-paragraph seems not to work

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Romain" == Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

   Romain> `message-fill-paragraph' is not meant to be called
   Romain> directly, it's used as the value of
   Romain> `fill-paragraph-function' in Message buffers; there are
   Romain> normal cases where it does nothing and returns nil.  The
   Romain> docstring is somewhat confusing, I'll clarify it.

Ok, especially since it is a interactive function, it is tempting to
use it. I propose to have such a function since
message-fill-yanked-message
is sometimes to aggressive.



Uwe