bug#6248: 23.1; justify (esc q) broken in Latex mode

[Mark Lillibridge]

Stefan wrote:
>  I (Mark) wrote:
>  > Repeat the steps using instead a suffix of .tex (latex mode); this time
>  > you instead obtain the following incorrect result:
>  >
>  >     This is a sample paragraph of text that is long enough that it may
>  >     need to be filled.  Here's a second sentence to continue the
>  >     paragraph.  And one more sentence for good measure.
>  
>  > Justify in latex mode worked correctly in Emacs 21, but does not work
>  > correctly in 22 or 23.  Please fix.
>  
>  It's not a bug, it's a feature.  The change is because Emacs-21 did not
>  offer indentation for LaTeX, whereas Emacs>=22 does.
>  To get the behavior you want, you'll want to set
>  fill-indent-according-to-mode, e.g.
>  
>   (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook
>             (lambda ()
>               (set (make-local-variable 'fill-indent-according-to-mode) nil)))

    While that workaround does work, I'm still not convinced this isn't
a bug.  Why is this broken behavior a feature?  

- Mark