bug#11165: 24.0.95; c-indent-new-comment-line bug or feature?

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

> 1. Emacs -q
> 2. M-x c-mode
> 3. customise the indentation for syntactic symbol c to 4
> 4. Enter /* and then M-j (c-indent-new-comment-line)

I think you've missed out some steps here.  When I do exactly that, I do
M-x c-mode on the opening splash screen (which isn't sensible), which is
read-only, preventing step 4.

What I tried was, instead of your step 4, creating a new buffer with C-x
b asdf.c, then setting the mode with M-x c-mode.

> you should see point located at column 2 instead of 4, which is a wrong
> indentation position for that line and unlike indent-new-comment-line
> or newline-and-indent.

I do indeed see point at column 2, which is correct.  I think you might
have set the offset for "c" to 4 before creating the empty C buffer.
Indentation configuration is buffer local.

When I then repeat the C-c C-o c <ret> 4 <ret> I then get the second line
at offset 4, where it ought to be.

> Is this a bug or feature? Thanks.

Could you please indicate exactly what you did.  I suspect this is
neither bug nor feature.  :-)  It would be good to get this bug report
closed off.

Leo

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