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Bug in fortran fixed format mode with lines longer than 72 characters

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From: Mark van Schilfgaarde <mark.vanschilfgaarde <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Bug in fortran fixed format mode with lines longer than 72 characters
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 18:20:18 +0100

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I am reporting a bug in emacs version 24.5.1.  It appears both on a
mac an on a linux machine.

Some functions in fortran fixed-format mode, with lines exceeding 72
columns (132 for example), still assume a 72 column width, independent
of the value of variable fortran-line-length

In particular sexp operations like (forward-sexp) assume characters
past 72 columns are comments.

Consider the attached "example.f" :  Read the file with
emacs -Q  example.f

Change variable  fortran-line-length :
(set-variable (quote fortran-line-length) 132 nil)

so that now:
(describe-variable (quote fortran-line-length))

returns:
fortran-line-length is a variable defined in `fortran.el'.
Its value is 132
Original value was 72
Local in buffer example.f; global value is 72


Move the point just after test1, so it precedes the first expression (..).
In this case forward-sexp works as expected.

Move the point just after test2, so it precedes the second expression (..).
In this case forward-sexp fails to find the end of the expression.
Note also that "twelve)" is highlighted as though it is a comment.

This problem does not appear in emacs 21.4


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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Mark van Schilfgaarde <mark.vanschilfgaarde <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20985 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20985: Bug in fortran fixed format mode with lines longer
 than 72 characters
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 20:00:29 -0400

Mark van Schilfgaarde wrote:

> (set-variable (quote fortran-line-length) 132 nil)

Thanks for the report. However, as it says in
  C-h v fortran-line-length

    Setting this variable directly (after fortran mode is loaded) does
    not take effect. Use either M-x customize (which affects all Fortran
    buffers and the default) or the function `fortran-line-length'
    (which can also operate on just the current buffer).

So: use

C-u 132 M-x fortran-line-length

> This problem does not appear in emacs 21.4

The variable fortran-line-length does not exist in 21.4.

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