Re: Change in supercite behavior from 20.7 to 21.1

[Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gnu.emacs.help as well.


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> Under 21.1, I get the following:

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This is actually unrelated to supercite.
But you're right, it's a bug that I introduced in Emacs-21.1.
The problem is that the adaptive-fill-regexp doesn't match the various
alternatives in the proper order, so it ends up matching the empty
prefix before trying to match "author>".  You can patch up lisp/sendmail.el
with the patch below or fix the problem with the following hook:

   (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook
             (lambda ()
               (setq adaptive-fill-regexp
                     (concat "[ \t]*[-[:alnum:]]*>+[ \t]*\\|"
                             (default-value 'adaptive-fill-regexp)))))

Thank you for pointing this out.


        Stefan


--- sendmail.el.~1.244.~        Tue Oct  2 15:42:39 2001
+++ sendmail.el Sat Oct 27 18:03:43 2001
@@ -324,13 +324,12 @@
@@ -494,12 +486,12 @@
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start) mail-yank-prefix)
   (make-local-variable 'adaptive-fill-regexp)
   (setq adaptive-fill-regexp
-       (concat adaptive-fill-regexp
-               "\\|[ \t]*[-[:alnum:]]*>+[ \t]*"))
+       (concat "[ \t]*[-[:alnum:]]*>+[ \t]*\\|"
+               adaptive-fill-regexp))
   (make-local-variable 'adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp)
   (setq adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp
-       (concat adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp
-               "\\|[ \t]*[-[:alnum:]]*>+[ \t]*"))
+       (concat "[ \t]*[-[:alnum:]]*>+[ \t]*\\|"
+               adaptive-fill-first-line-regexp))
   ;; `-- ' precedes the signature.  `-----' appears at the start of the
   ;; lines that delimit forwarded messages.
   ;; Lines containing just >= 3 dashes, perhaps after whitespace,


        Stefan