GNU bug report logs - #17895
24.3.91; electric-indent-mode not quite right with comments in fortran-mode

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Message #20 received at 17895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Roland Winkler <winkler <at> gnu.org>, 17895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17895: 24.3.91;
 electric-indent-mode not quite right with comments in fortran-mode
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 21:51:06 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Instead, the problem here seems to only affect empty lines (i.e. lines
> where the text hasn't been written yet)

(How do you type RET and have text already written on the new line...?)

> , and this problem affects many/most modes.

Oh duh, of course.

if foo; then
   ...
   ... when will endif appear...
   ... who knows...
   endif  # oh here it is

> But I guess if the first non-whitespace char is a capital C,
> fortran-mode has a similar problem to python-mode in that it can't know
> for sure if the line should be assumed to be a comment (and go to
> column-0) or to be some instruction that happens to start with a capital
> C (and should go to some further column).

Yep. (CHARACTER for example.)


So I don't really see that there is anything to do here.

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