bug#36702: 27.0.50; newline: don't auto-fill regardless of auto-fill-mode

[Andreas Röhler]

On 17.07.19 21:07, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> > On 17.07.19 19:47, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> > > Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
> > >
> > > > Okay, commonly there many ways in Emacs to work around an issue, which is
> > > > great. But that doesn't solve it at source. By its semantic newline is unrelated
> > > > to filling, from there that behavior is not to expect, idiosyncratic.
> > > Unless you or someone else has a concrete proposal for how to fix said
> > > idiosyncratic behaviour in a backward-compatible way, I think that ship
> > > has sailed.
> > Decoupling it should not break anything. When fixed, just setting an
> > auto-fill-function will no longer trigger auto-fill in case auto-fill-mode is
> > off.
> But auto-fill-function is effectively synonymous with auto-fill-mode.

Consider that a design flaw. Just setting a var should not trigger a mode.


> If the former is nil, the latter is disabled.  If the former is non-nil,
> the latter is enabled.  There is no variable auto-fill-mode, only the
> buffer-local variable auto-fill-function.
>
> Users and modes that do not want to enable auto-fill-mode should not
> make auto-fill-function non-nil.
>
> Modes that want to provide a custom auto-fill function without enabling
> auto-fill-mode should set normal-auto-fill-function buffer-locally
> instead of auto-fill-function.

Thanks for the hint. Will use it as a workaround.