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

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

   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))))))))

--- cut here ---

-- 
Pavel Janík

I'll have to convert to a program whose config files I can understand anyway
some day.
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