> (I am *guessing* the original reporter's code had at least one
> statement in the "if" block.  It's not valid syntax otherwise.)

However, both these examples indent the same for me in Emacs 26.1 and
Emacs 28 (wrong in the same way), so I'm still not seeing what the
original reporter is seeing?

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