bug#17757: 24.4.50; Whitespace changes break signature mark

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> E.g. I can see that we might want to preserve the space in the above
> case (tho it presumes that the user really intended it to be the sig
> separator, which seems quite unlikely nowadays because AFAICT most
> users have no idea that such a thing even exists).
> But what about:
>
>     M-> -- SPC hello world M-b M-b RET
>
> should this RET be interpreted as an intention to turn the "-- SPC" into
> a sig separator?

Probably not?  Message mode wouldn't have fontified that as a signature
separator, in any case.  (I think.)  So if we have the fontification add
some magical property to the space to make electric-mode leave it alone,
there'll be no change in behaviour in that case.

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