message-mode, itemization, filling, and undo

[Amy Templeton]

Hi,

Quick question. So I use Gnus to compose mail, with message-mode as the
actual mail-writing mode of choice. There is one thing that seems a bit odd
to me, though...

Normally, "undo"-ing is not a problem in these buffers. However, I often
need to itemize things in them, and sometimes these are full sentences.

- This is an example of the sort of thing you might expect to see. A couple
  of sentences,
- Followed by another bullet with more sentences.

However, sometimes if I go back and edit one that's further up, without
thinking I'll press M-q ("fill-paragraph") to, well, fill it. However, I'll
end up with something like this:

- This is an example of the sort of thing you might expect to see. A couple
- of sentences or something, - Followed by another bullet with more
- sentences. - But now it's messed up and oddly filled and this tends to be
- a problem because...

...all of a sudden it starts complaining that there is no further undo
information, even if I've, say, just typed a new letter, and refuses to undo
*anything* in that buffer ever again (then I send the message and
everything's fine the next time I start composing). This is especially
annoying in that I can't undo the mis-filling of the bullets and have to do
so by hand.

Any idea on what's causing this or how to fix it?

Thanks,
Amy

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