Subject: Re: bug#17895: 24.3.91; electric-indent-mode not quite right with comments in fortran-mode

From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 15:55:18 -0500

On Tue Jul 1 2014 Glenn Morris wrote:
> Even g77 supports "!" comments.

For existing code "!" is not always an adequate choice.

> (Everyone should use free-format Fortran, where these problems
> were all solved 20+ years ago!)

All this is obviously not about new code, but it is about
maintaining existing code.
(Also, that's why Emacs comes with fortran-mode and f90-mode.  They
serve different needs!)

I completely agree that in a perfect world rewriting the old code is
the way to go.  But that's not always possible.  I am pretty sure
that such code will still be around and used happily twenty years
from now.