Re: Line indents to middle when editing init.el: what the heck is happening?

[Alexis]

Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> writes:

> Ah, I am using a single semicolon!  I have never heard of that 
> behavior before, and I don't remember seeing that in XEmacs (but 
> I started with an extensive init.el from one of the daddy 
> rabbits which may be the reason).

It's part of the GNU Emacs coding conventions / recommendations; 
cf.  this section of GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Comment-Tips.html#Comment-Tips

> I'll see if a double-semicolon changes the behavior. BTW, do you 
> know how to change that behavior?

Well, in terms of which column a single-semicolon comment will be 
aligned to, you can set the value of the variable 
`comment-column`.

Afaik, to change how single-semicolon comments behave overall, 
you'd need to modify the variable `comment-indent-function` to 
point to a function that behaves the way you want (e.g. a modified 
version of the function `comment-indent-default`).

> Thanks, Alexis.

You're welcome. :-)


Alexis.