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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Subject: bug#27491: Indentation issue in emacs
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:46:56 +0530
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, 27491-done@debbugs.gnu.org


Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Arun Isaac (2017-06-27 11:44 +0530) wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, fixed! :-)
>>>
>>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=2482c02f3b23b2490a6647e0717cf8a4ccf3f6a8
>>>
>>> However, I think this is a hack, and the better solution would be to
>>> actually fix the underlying indentation issue. But, I am too lazy to
>>> find out how. :-P
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by a "fix".  This is an Emacs issue, and it
>> was there since... I don't know, always.  Moreover, I don't think it's a
>> bug; it's just how Emacs finds a beginning of the top-level sexp – it
>> "sees" a leading parenthesis on a line and it considers it to be a
>> beginning of the sexp.
>
> I consider this a bug.  Surely Emacs could do better here — especially
> since this is a lisp mode!
>
> @Arun, would you like to report this as a bug to the Emacs developers?

Sure, I'll do that.