This bug is weird. I couldn't use auto-indentation in a certain file. I tried restarting Emacs, behavior persists. I upgraded to the latest version from Bzr, behavior persists. I created a new account with no .emacs file and tried from there, behavior persists. In comparison, indentation works correctly in the Emacs that in the current Debian Wheezy repository, which is 24.3.50.1. Trying to automatically indent code inside the last function in the attached file fails. It succeeds if I make almost any modification to code above the last function in the file -- it could be something as minor as adding a space on an empty line, but changing text in the comments seems to have no effect. Indentation works in every function but the last one (or any one you create below it). The point at which indentation breaks is somewhere very close to the bottom of the file, I deleted code from the bottom of the file until I found the location where it breaks. In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2) of 2012-12-20 on moria Bzr revision: 111280 dmantipov@yandex.ru-20121220160905-qpa3zdo5rx335ydu Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) Configured using: `configure '--prefix=/opt/emacs'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: C/l Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t abbrev-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message cl-macs gv format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch edmacro kmacro cc-langs cl nadvice cl-lib cc-mode cc-fonts easymenu cc-guess cc-menus cc-cmds server cc-styles cc-align cc-engine cc-vars cc-defs deeper-blue-theme time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)