Re: Why does fill-paragraph insert a "-" char on wrapped lines?

[Stefan Monnier]

> When fill-paragraph is applied to

>  ;; - This is a long line that will wrap when it is filled.

> it is filled like this

>  ;; - This is a long line that will wrap when it is
>  ;; - filled.

> I do not understand why there is a "-" char on the second line
> above. I would expect that it looked like

>  ;; - This is a long line that will wrap when it is
>  ;;   filled.

It's a limitation of the current adaptive-fill-mode code.
It actually works in my local Emacs implementation, because I've added
various hacks to it, but this is post-22.


        Stefan