> I forget what my logic was here. Feel free to do whatever you think > is appropriate. I think backtab is actually not used in many modes. I made it so as lisp-dedent-adjust-parens returns nil for that case, so you can bind: (lambda (parg) (unless (lisp-dedent-adjust-parens parg) (when (< (current-column) (current-indentation)) (back-to-indentation)))) to . I adapted your updates and bumped the version in ELPA. Thank you.