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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:47:33 -0400

[ Don't know enough about Fortran to know what is "insert a multiline
  comment" in this context, neither do I know what is a "multiline
  statement" or why it would "require fortran-continuation-string", so
  I'll skip this part of your bug-report.  Presumably Glenn will be able
  to give you a more useful answer in this area.  ]

> PS: It seems to me that in fortran-mode the command
> indent-for-tab-command bound to TAB is better suited to provide the
> proper indentation *after* typing, say, fortran-comment-line-start
> or fortran-continuation-string in column 0 of a new line.

Maybe a way to fix this problem, then, would be to make fortran's
indent-line-function indent to column 0 when called on an empty line in
one of those contexts.

        Stefan