tags 19740 + patch
block 19740 by 385
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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> If you need more control over the placement, rather than a variable
> comment-indent-fixed, maybe we should just say that if
> comment-indent-function returns a list of a single integer, it should be
> taken as the indentation position and not second-guessed.  Or it could
> return a cons cell (MIN . MAX) to say "anywhere between MIN and MAX".

Here's a patch.  This seems to be a prerequisite to fix #19740.

Regarding incompatibility of new comment-indent-functions for old Emacs,
some simple advice on comment-choose-indent should easily do the trick.