Re: auto-fill and fill-paragraph not working in Gnus

[Jason Mader]

On May 11, 3:30 pm, Jason  Mader <jasonma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 2:38 pm, Lowell Gilbert <lguse...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
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> > Jason  Mader <jasonma...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On May 11, 11:04 am, Lowell Gilbert <lguse...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> > >> Jason  Mader <jasonma...@gmail.com> writes:
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> > >> > I am using Emacs version 23.2.1 and Gnus 5.10.9.  In Message mode,
> > >> > auto-fill mode is enabled but it seems to be ignored.  And fill-
> > >> > paragraph fills a paragraph strangely, tab indenting all the lines
> > >> > after the first line.  The only way to fill text is to select the text
> > >> > with mark and then manually run fill-region.
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> > >> Maybe you have a fill-prefix set?
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> > > fill-prefix is nil
> > > fill-column is 74
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> > > In message-fill-field-general fill-prefix is set to \t and that is
> > > what my paragraphs look like.  But that should only be used for
> > > headers, not the message body.
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> > Quite right.  I was just taking a bit of a shot in the dark, because I
> > can't reproduce the problem -- which admittedly is only described in vague
> > terms, but I'm clearly not getting whatever it is you are.  I'm not
> > running exactly the same versions, either.
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> > You might try testing with your configuration files disabled, just to
> > see how close to home the problem originates.
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> You're right the problem is just in my house.  fill-paragraph worked
> exactly like it should when I just created a new buffer and set
> message-mode.  Thanks for tip.  I found the minor mode that is causing
> this.

I'm really mistaken.  I was starting an older version of emacs with
configuration files and using Gnus 5.11 and message-mode will
correctly fill-paragraph.  But in Emacs 23.2 and it turns out to be
Gnus 5.13 with my exact same configuration fill-paragraph creates tab
indented hanging paragraphs.