indent-new-comment-line misbehaviour?

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:



   > Second, I see that this comes from something called "newcomment.el",
   > so it may not work at all without the rest of the new comment stuff.
   > You may copy that whole file to ~/.xemacs and put

   >     (load (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/newcomment.elc"))


Now wait a moment so the solution is on the lisp level (newcomment)
not on the C level as a suspected.  So there would be no need to
compile my own 21.5/21.4 just for that? I

Besides I see that the patch is from 2005-01-26 09:57:12 GMT
while in the xemacs-21.5.28 tree newcomment is from 
2006-03-17, so I presume it is already patched.

   > in init.el after you've tested a bit by loading by hand (and the very
   > first time you want to do M-x byte-compile-and-load-file on it).


   > Yes, we understand that.  But this is part of the XEmacs core, so

   > (1) You need to wait for the Ubuntu process to pick up the next
   >     release of XEmacs 21.4.  We have zero control over that.
   > (2) They need to wait for us to release.  Only Vin has much say in
   >     that.  He has been relatively actively posting recently, but he
   >     doesn't post a schedule since XEmacs 21.4 is relatively bug-free
   >     and releases are done as patches accumulate.
   > (3) The bug report and patch we have is obscure and old.

   > Your testing will make a big difference.  It always does.

Right, but if its on the lisp level of course I am willing to do it
eagerly. 
   >> 
   >> Vin, has anybody tested that patch in 21.4, and if so
   >> are you willing to apply it?

   > For future cases: you should provide a reference to the relevant
   > messages even if it's already been mentioned (in that case just
   > copying the previous URL is fine).


Right, Reiner Steib has even a nifty function which does that. I have
to dig it out.

Uwe