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> Prior versions of emacs passed any prefix argument to [Tab] through
> `indent-for-tab-command' to `indent-line-function'.  Now, in Emacs 21.x,
> that prefix argument is trapped and not passed.

Yes: many indent-line-functions don't expect an argument and crashed
when you did C-u TAB.  So we removed it.

> The variable `current-prefix-arg' does me no good, since the line-function
> is called recursively.

I don't understand what you mean here.

> Any suggestions for a workaround to get [C-u TAB] to behave like before?

Depends on the context.
In lisp-mode, what we did was to rebind TAB to lisp-indent-line.
I don't like this approach, admittedly, because it then disregards
tab-always-indent.


	Stefan