Re: bad comment indentation in Emacs Lisp

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

The principle he cites is correct -- could you please fix this
and ack?

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:10:03 -0800
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Subject: bad comment indentation in Emacs Lisp

Put this in Emacs Lisp mode and use `C-M-q' at the beginning:
 
(let (;; foobar
      ;; toto
      (titi...)))
 
You get this:
 
(let ( ;; foobar
      ;; toto
      (titi...)))
 
However, if you just use TAB on each line, you don't get that.
 
To me, this is a bug.  `;;' comments should be aligned just as
TAB would align them, always.  `C-M-q' should be equivalent to
using both TAB and `M-;' on each line of the sexp.

Also, in a situation like the preceding, it is likely that you
want the two comments to line up.

In GNU Emacs 22.1.90.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-01-30 on PRETEST
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include'