Subject: Re: bug#26642: 25.1; Lisp Mode: open paren at start of line in doc string messes up top level form detection

From: John Mastro <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 10:30:06 -0700

Glenn Morris <[email-masked]> wrote:
> The is the long-standing "open paren in column zero" issue.
> Searching should find several previous discussions.

You can get the behavior you want by setting the variable
`open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' to nil.

        John