bug#28003: 26.0.50; Auto fill broken in Message mode

[Stephen Berman]

On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 12:33:01 +0900 Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:56:42 +0200, Stephen Berman wrote:
>> This change:
> [...]
>> broke auto filling in Message mode; the breakage is due specifically to
>> this change in comment-indent-new-line:
>
> This will probably be no more than a workaround, though.
>
> --- message.el~       2017-08-08 22:08:28.694840400 +0000
> +++ message.el        2017-08-09 03:30:33.407170200 +0000
> @@ -3451,7 +3451,7 @@
>  (defun message-do-auto-fill ()
>    "Like `do-auto-fill', but don't fill in message header."
>    (unless (message-point-in-header-p)
> -    (do-auto-fill)))
> +    (let ((comment-start nil)) (do-auto-fill))))
>  
>  (defun message-insert-signature (&optional force)
>    "Insert a signature.  See documentation for variable `message-signature'."

This change doesn't fix the problem.  I don't know what the motivation
for the change that caused this problem was, so I don't know how to fix
it; cc'ing Tom Tromey, who made the change.

Steve Berman