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26.0.50: [PATCH] Confusing behaviour for indent-relative-maybe

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From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.0.50: [PATCH] Confusing behaviour for indent-relative-maybe
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:01:15 -0600

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In emacs -Q's scratch buffer, try the following:

M-: (indent-relative) RET

Repeating this will move to the next appropriate indentation point as
indicated in indent-relative's docstring.

Now try:

M-: (indent-relative-maybe) RET

The point does not move even when there are appropriate indentation
points to move to. This contradicts the intention of the docstring for
indent-relative-maybe:

       If the previous nonblank line has no indent points beyond the
       column point starts at, this command does nothing.


I would have expected, in indent-relative, that the calculation of a
suitable indentation position is done independent of the argument
UNINDENTED-OK. The following diff fixes this:

[indent.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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Apparently this stems from the initial revision of indent.el. Am I just
misinterpreting this function's purpose, or has it been wrong this whole
time?

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