Re: No. 232 - indent-new-comment-line misbehaviour
Andreas Röhler writes:
Or: Why not make the basement of this marvellous
universe of code a little bit more reliable?
Because Richard Stallman likes it the way it is. Look up the history
of `split-string'. He absolutely insisted on special-casing the
default case because that's what a hacker would want most of the time.
This kind of thing happens all the time.
We're constrained by compatibility with split-string and other common
APIs.
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