GNU bug report logs - #6902
23.2; indent-line-to possible devide by zero error bug

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Arik Mitschang <arik.mitschang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:50:03 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 23.2

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Arik Mitschang <arik.mitschang <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6902: 23.2; indent-line-to possible devide by zero error bug
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:32:35 -0400

Arik Mitschang wrote:

> In indent.el the indent-line-to function has a comparison that devides
> the current column count by tab-width, whose value is an integerp and
> allowed to be zero (and in my experience is often 0).

Why do you want to set tab-width to 0?

A quick grep for tab-width shows other places that will break.
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