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From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hitting <Ret> at beginning of comment line of .el files
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:04:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh4wtoop.fsf@ebih.ebihd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: trinity-a2e92635-ed63-447f-9d94-2586703b7ef3-1602188730537@3c-app-mailcom-bs16

Christopher Dimech wrote:

> When I hit <Ret> at beginning of a comment line in
> an elisp file I get the line shifted by five tabs.
> Why does this happen. I am thinking of disabling
> this thing. How can I disable such behaviour.

Sounds like an auto-indentation thing.

Use _two_ semi-colons (;;) for all-comment lines, e.g.

;; now the interesting stuff begins...

but

(+ 1 3 3 7) ; addition is addictive

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08 20:25 Hitting <Ret> at beginning of comment line of .el files Christopher Dimech
2020-10-08 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]

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