GNU bug report logs - #3370
23.0.94; `comment-region' indents comment chars inappropriately

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 22:40:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Jason Rumney'" <jasonr <at> gnu.org>,
        "'Chong Yidong'" <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>,
        <3370 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Cc: "'Dan Nicolaescu'" <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>, <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#3370: 23.0.94;	`comment-region' indents comment chars  inappropriately
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 19:09:21 -0700

> > Aha, I was mistaken.  Sorry for the confusion.
> >
> > The default for `comment-style' has been changed, it is no longer
> > `plain'.  See Richard's 2007-10-26 changing it to 
> > `indent-or-tripe', and Dan's 2008-12-18 change making it
> > `indent' (Bug#1153).
> >
> > This should have been documented in NEWS; I'll do that.
> 
> Or perhaps it would have been better putting it back to plain if 
> Richard's new indent-or-triple option was found to not be a suitable 
> default.  I'm not sure that Dan looked into the history when 
> he changed it to indent.

Please restore the traditional behavior.
A mere doc change does not cut the mustard.
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