Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Yes, that is what I meant.  The "kind of things" is nothing more than
  > writing comments in C (etc.) source code.  Sooner or later, such a
  > comment has a parenthesis in it, and sooner or later (e.g. by M-q), this
  > will end up in column 0,

I am surprised, because that never happens to me.  I don't put a * at
the start of each comment line, but I do indent each comment line
and that should be enough to make sure no openparen fills into column 0.

What do you think of such indentation as a solution for this problem.

  > My position at the moment is that the o-p-i-c-0-i-d-s mechanism should
  > remain active, but that we should fix the bugs in it such that the
  > backward scanning would only stop at a column-0 paren not in a comment
  > or string.  I outlined one way of doing this in the thread called "A
  > proposal for the future of open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start", but
  > nobody has responded to the thrust of this post at all, as yet.

If this can be done, I don't think I would argue against it.

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