bug#29767: 26.0.90; Failing auto-fill in message-mode because of bad state (comment-skip-end)

[Tomas Nordin]

Please ignore this my message (was ignored I think already). I feel a
bit dumb, because the same idea but with better detail was given in the
OP of this thread already.

Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net> writes:

> Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> not for me. i am answering here with a long line, and the two quoted
>> lines above don't trigger the bug on my side.  here you see the lines
>> that was auto-filled without any extra >.
>
> I have been experimenting with this, debugging with debugger. An early
> function called is do-auto-fill. In the process at some point later, the
> function comment-beginning is called to determine if we are in a comment
> or not. If it returns nil, there will be no problems, when it returns a
> value there will be problems. In that case point is also moved to the
> place above the text where the comment syntax is picked (or prefix if
> you want).
>
> I have been in reply buffers where there is no problem and then in reply
> buffers where there is problem. But also in a buffer where there was
> this problem in the bottom of the buffer but not in the mid of the
> buffer.
>
> Anyhow, I claim that if you eval (comment-beginning) with point close to
> the break point and it returns nil, there will be no problem. Else, a
> value is returned and point will move back in the buffer and there will
> be problems when filling.
>
> No fix here but just adding in the hope it could be of any use.
>
> Regards
> --
> Tomas