Re: auto-fill in message mode filling with prefix "> "

[Narendra Joshi]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I use emacs snapshot on Debian.  Recently, but cannot say when exactly,
> my email composition has started behaving strangely with respect to
> auto-fill mode.  Specifically, if I'm responding to an email, as I type,
> long lines get auto-filled with "> " as the prefix.  The first line of
> the paragraph does *not* start with "> " and I usually have at least one
> blank line between the paragraph I am typing and any included text from
> the original email.
>
> I have searched my configuration for anything that would affect this but
> I have nothing.  When it comes to auto-fill, I've left everything as
> default as far as I can tell.
>
> Any suggestions on how to track this down would be welcome.  
Are you able to reproduce this in Emacs started with `emacs -Q`?

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Narendra Joshi