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From: Kees Bakker <kees.bakker@altium.nl>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	3688@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#3688: Also need (auto-fill-mode nil) to trigger this bug
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:01:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906291001.56093.kees.bakker@altium.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626211431.GE4685@muc.de>

On Friday 26 June 2009, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Kees!

Hi Alan,

> 
> The mechanism for the bug is thus: when doing filling, c-mask-paragraph
> temporarily replaces the whitespace before "*/" with a string of "x"s, so
> that Emacs's low level filling routine can't put "*/" on a line of its
> own.  At the end of the routine, the calculation to restore point does a
> spurious correction to correct for an imagined difference between the
> size of the WS (24 columns) and the number of bytes (3 tab characters).
> 
> Removing this "uncorrection" fixes things.  Please test out the patch
> below.

Yes, the patch fixes it. Thanks for looking into this, and having it solved
so quickly.

BTW. I never intended to enable auto-fill. But strangly enough the following
will _toggle_ auto-fill-mode. (I know, this function is "Toggle Auto Fill mode".
Besides a clear description to turn it on, it should also have a clear
description to turn it off.)

  (auto-fill-mode nil)
-- 
Kees





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-29  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200906261356.48352.kees.bakker@altium.nl>
2009-06-26 21:14 ` bug#3688: Also need (auto-fill-mode nil) to trigger this bug Alan Mackenzie
2009-06-29  8:01   ` Kees Bakker [this message]
2009-06-29  8:54     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-29  9:18       ` Kees Bakker
2009-06-29 12:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-29 21:37         ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-06-29 14:55       ` Alan Mackenzie

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