Re: Trying to find the status of auto-fill-mode in a buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:50:08 +0100
> From:  Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> The original post contained this wording:
> 
> > > C-h f auto-fill-mode says : 
> > >   ''To check whether the minor mode is
> > >   enabled in the current buffer, evaluate ‘auto-fill-function’. ''
> 
> At least in master one gets:
> 
> | To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
> | evaluate the variable ‘auto-fill-function’.
> 
> which is (as opposed to the first version) ok to me.  "Check
> the binding" would be a bit better IMO, but I don't find anything
> confusing in the current wording.  I should have checked earlier.

The wording on the emacs-30 release branch is identical to what you
see on master, which means that all the future Emacs releases will
mention the variable part.