NOTE: This patch has been committed. The version below is informational only. In particular, whitespace difference have been removed. The following patch makes auto-fill-mode properly format comments (when lines are automatically broken). It looks strangely similar to that of: | 1999-06-24 Bob Weiner <weiner(a)beopen.com&gt; | | * simple.el (indent-new-comment-line): Locally bound | `block-comment-start' to `comstart' or else when this is called | from do-auto-fill, e.g. in Lisp mode, it will insert any non-nil | `block-comment-start' value, ignoring any existing spacing after a | comment prefix in the previous line and producing ugly comments. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2008-03-05 Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org&gt; Fix auto-formatting of comments in auto-fill-mode. * newcomment.el (comment-indent): Don't insert a space at bol. * newcomment.el (comment-indent-new-line): Bind block-comment-start to comment-start in order to preserve the formatting of previous comment lines. XEmacs 21.5 source patch: Diff command: hg diff -wbB Files affected: lisp/newcomment.el diff -r 7f3d065a56a1 lisp/newcomment.el --- lisp/newcomment.el Wed Mar 05 10:41:54 2008 +0100 +++ lisp/newcomment.el Wed Mar 05 17:56:04 2008 +0100 ＠＠ -498,7 +498,8 ＠＠ Comments starting in column 0 are not mo (setq begpos (point)) ;; Ensure there's a space before the comment for things ;; like sh where it matters (as well as being neater). - (unless (eq ?\ (char-syntax (char-before))) + ;; ... but unless we're at the beginning of a line -- dvl + (unless (or (bolp) (eq ?\ (char-syntax (char-before)))) (insert ?\ )) (insert starter) (setq cpos (point-marker)) ＠＠ -1097,6 +1098,7 ＠＠ unless optional argument SOFT is non-nil (point)) nil t))))) (comment-start comstart) + (block-comment-start comment-start) (continuep (or comment-multi-line (cadr (assoc comment-style comment-styles)))) ;; Force comment-continue to be recreated from comment-start. -- 5th European Lisp Workshop at ECOOP 2008, July 7: http://elw.bknr.net/2008/ Didier Verna, didier(a)lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 94276 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France Fax.+33 (0)1 53 14 59 22 didier(a)xemacs.org _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches