Hello emacs help -

I understand from Óscar Fuentes that Eli Zaretskii posted a reply to my
earlier email on this subject suggesting that I provide a recipe for
recreating the problem. Here is a recipe and some discussion. If anyone
writes a reply to this email, I hope s/he will send me a copy. I am not
on the regular mailing list for emacs help. Thanks.

1. Start emacs from a command window by typing emacs -Q test

2. Type the following, which will wrap around as you type.

9/19/12 Worked 9.5 hours. Spent 1 hour misc. Spent 0.5 hour RTFI.
Watched Mitutoyo vid of IMTS QIF demo. Exchanged email messages with Bob
Brown.

3. Type Esc-q The paragraph is set on three lines and looks like the
following:

9/19/12 Worked 9.5 hours. Spent 1 hour misc. Spent 0.5 hour
RTFI. Watched Mitutoyo vid of IMTS QIF demo. Exchanged email messages
with Bob Brown.

Note that the second line is much longer (69 characters) than the first
(59 characters), and there is plenty of space for RTFI to fit on the
first line.

That demonstrates the problem. To check that the problem is caused by
the end of the line, copy the word
messages from the end of the second line to the end of the first line
and type Esc-q again. Note that nothing
changes even though the first line is now much longer than it would have
been if it ended with RTFI.

I am using emacs on Linux, but I have had exactly the same problem with
other OSs.

Tom Kramer