Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See
https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hard-newlines [1] are an excellent way to inform Emacs to stop refilling lines. In a way, this serves a similar purpose to org's \\ but with a major difference being that hard-newlines are not saved to file. There are several cases where this is the desired behaviour: 1. When you want to end a line with a link and continue text in the next line. You don't care about the export since it will be taken care of properly. 2. When reflowing text with inline latex in them. You adjust the line width so that it looks like 80 columns are present in a single line. With hard-newlines, this becomes a very easy job without with you have to isolate the line of interest into a separate paragraph, then do the manual reflow, rinse and repeat. 3. When writing a list, you give a short description at the top. Then continue writing down below like this without the need to insert a empty line after the first line. My point is that there are several instances where you need a solution that is less aggressive than \\ and hard-newlines hit that sweet spot perfectly. I currently don't have a git checkout of org-mode handy so cannot produce a patch wrt master branch but changing `fill-region-as-paragraph' to `fill-region' does the job, as in diff --git a/lisp/org/org.el b/lisp/org/org.el index 6f92cdeab5..d53c8c0243 100644 --- a/lisp/org/org.el +++ b/lisp/org/org.el @@ -19580,7 +19580,7 @@ org-fill-element (org-element-context)))) (push (point) cuts))) (dolist (c (delq end cuts)) - (fill-region-as-paragraph c end justify) + (fill-region c end justify) (setq end c)))) t))) ;; Contents of `comment-block' type elements should be 1. See C-h f use-hard-newlines RET Emacs : GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 12, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw scroll bars) of 2022-09-17 Package: Org mode version 9.5.5 (release_9.5.5 @ /home/viz/lib/ports/emacs/lisp/org/)