Re: address@hidden: auto-fill in c-mode messes up incomplete comments]

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Toby, Hi Richard!

On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 07:43:02PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Would someone please work on this?

I've just submitted a fix in cc-cmds.el.

Toby, would you please update your cc-cmds.el, and see if my fix actually
is a fix.  Thanks in Advance!

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> >>>From a shell prompt:

> emacs -q /tmp/tmp.c
> M-x auto-fill-mode
> /*
> * 

> (That's / * <return> * SPC).

> When typing the final space, the second line gets deleted.  Pressing
> return instead messes it up differently.  This seems to be a problem
> with c-mask-paragraph.

Absolutely spot on!  I'd subtracted 2 from the position after "*/",
without actually testing that the "*/" was present.  I think I've got it
right, now.

I'm not quite sure what you meant by the following, though.  Can you let
me know whether or not it works now, please.

> After space:
> - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /*
> - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


> After return:
> - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /
> **
> - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Ittersbach, Germany)