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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> The patch below seems to fix it for me.  Is it OK to push it to emacs-26?
>
> Is it also OK to push my patch that I posted as
> <b4m4lol274e.fsf@jpl.org>, i.e.,
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2017-12/msg00714.html>
> ?
> This prevents `message-auto-fill' from adding a useless citation in
> the following case:

I don't have an opinion on this, except that despite appearances this is
a completely different issue: bug#29767 is about a new bug where Emacs
"loses track" of the \n that closes a quoted line, whereas your problem
is about the definition of what is a paragraph and that problem is
not new, AFAIK.


        Stefan