Re: `hard-newline' changes trigger format=flowed in Gnus

[Sam Steingold]

> * Reiner Steib <address@hidden> [2005-11-30 21:23:16 +0100]:
>
> On Wed, Nov 30 2005, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>>> * Reiner Steib <address@hidden> [2005-11-30 16:10:28 +0100]:
>>>
>>> |    On encoding text, regardless of `use-hard-newlines', lines
>>> | terminated by soft newline characters are filled together and wrapped
>>> | after the column decided by `fill-flowed-encode-column'.  [...]
>>> | If hard newline characters are not present in the buffer, no flow
>>> | encoding occurs.
>>
>> during the short period while message.el was broken, this was _NOT_ the
>> case, see, e.g., <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:46314>
>> where my message is filled _TOGETHER_ with the message I quoted into a
>> single paragraph.
>
> But I guess that there _where_ hard newlines in your message buffer?

The honest answer, I am afraid, is "I don't know".
I did not know what is a hard-newline then
(and I am sorry that I do know that now),
and I certainly did nothing special to get it inserted into the message.

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