(newline 1) not equal to (insert "\n") longlines.el

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> " " == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:
   >> 
   >> Can somebody please tell me what is the difference between the 2 ways
   >> of inserting a newline.

    > We don?t ship longlines.el and the same thing happens with GNU
    > Emacs, so future questions on its behaviour would probably be
    > more usefully addressed to the package?s authors.
I was not sure whether may be newline was implemented differently in
both maces

    > The difference
    > is, from the docstring of ?newline?:



    >     The newline is marked with the text-property `hard'.  With
    >     optional arg N, insert that many newlines.  In Auto Fill
    >     mode, if no numeric arg, break the preceding line if it's
    >     long."

    > and indeed (progn (insert "\n") (put-text-property (1- (point))
    > (point) 'hard 't)) successfully inserts a newline.
Yeah I thought it had to do with hard via soft. But before I used 
(insert "\n") I executed 
use-hard-newlines
thinking this would be enough. I see I should have used
put-text-property. That did not occur to me.

Thanks

Uwe