bug#57986: 29.0.50; Citation prefix lost when message-newline-and-reformat

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> Yeah, the docstring sounds like do-what-I-mean reformatting, not
> something more specific that cares about exactly where point is in the
> line.  (I'd still advocate for changing it -- is there any use for this
> command aside from splitting up quoted text like this?)

No, but point determines what to use as the quote prefix, and that makes
some difference if you have variations on

>> Foo bar
>>> Foo bar zot

etc -- it uses the bit before point to find the prefix.  And if you look
at the code, it's explicitly checking whether we're at bolp to disable
that logic.

I've played around a bit hitting `M-RET' at various places, and I think
that what it does probably makes sense, even if it's not totally
intuitive, so I've just clarified this in the doc string instead of
changing what it's doing.