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23.1; bad indentation in (elisp) example

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Message #16 received at 5195-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 5195-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5195: 23.1; bad indentation in (elisp) example
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:37:31 +0200

> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:01:34 -0800
> Cc: 5195 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > emacs -Q
> > > Go to (elisp)Example Major Modes
> > 
> > > The `emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table' example is not indented
> > > correctly.  E.g.:
> > 
> > >    (while (< i ?0)
> > > (modify-syntax-entry i "_   " table)
> > > (setq i (1+ i)))
> > 
> > I can't reproduce this: the indentation is correct for me.
> 
> Well, it's as clear as day for me, in emacs -Q on Windows. Perhaps it's a
> platform problem.

No, it wasn't.  I fixed it.  Thanks for catching this.

I don't know why Yidong didn't see it; perhaps he was looking at the
Texinfo sources, where the example's indentation is indeed all dandy.
The problem was that this example used TABs, not spaces, for
indentation, which is generally a no-no in Texinfo (that's why Texinfo
mode sets indent-tabs-mode to nil).  When an Info file is produced,
makeinfo indents examples some more, and then indentation with TABs
gets screwed, of course.

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