GNU bug report logs - #101
bad C-j behavior in Emacs-Lisp mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:15:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bad C-j behavior in Emacs-Lisp mode
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:05:40 -0700

emacs -Q
 
In Emacs-Lisp mode, put cursor after (bar m) and hit C-j.
 
(if (string= foo "a")
    (bar m) ; Comment
 
The cursor is put after the semicolon. It should be put before it,
ready for you to type the second "then" clause of the `if'.
 
This is what happens (with the cursor at |):
 
(if (string= foo "a")
    (bar m)
                                        ;| Comment
 
This behavior would be better:
 
(if (string= foo "a")
    (bar m)
  |                                     ; Comment
 
It doesn't make sense for the cursor to move from outside to
inside the comment.
 
 
In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bad C-j behavior in Emacs-Lisp mode
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 23:05:10 -0400

Tags: wontfix

> In Emacs-Lisp mode, put cursor after (bar m) and hit C-j.
> 
> (if (string= foo "a")
>     (bar m) ; Comment
> 
> The cursor is put after the semicolon. It should be put before it,
> ready for you to type the second "then" clause of the `if'.

The behavior is correct, since C-j performs a newline followed by an
indent.  In Emacs Lisp mode, single-semicolon comments are indented to
comment-column, which as a default value of 40.
Tags added: wontfix Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:20:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 101 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> Request was from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:20:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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