Re: Need help w/ ada-mode.el under Emacs 21.

[john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 04:28:20 -0600, "Bobby D. Bryant"
<bdbryant@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>
>After a general system upgrade my Ada-mode for Emacs is behaving
>differently, and I'm having trouble restoring the earlier behavior.
>
>The behavior that I want to suppress is that whenever you press return on
>an empty line to create more whitespace I get an indentation on the new
>line, and I want the cursor to stay at the left margin unless I press the
>tab key.  Previously it would guess an indentation if I were in the middle
>of a declaration or a statement, but not otherwise, and that is the
>behavior that I would like to restore.
>
>I see that I can suppress re-indentation of the *current* line by adding
>(setq ada-indent-after-return nil) to my ~/.emacs, but that's not what I
>want to change -- I want to change indentation of the line where the
>cursor ends up after pressing return.  Nor do I want to disable
>indentation altogether; I just want to disable contextless indentation. 
>(While working on complicated problems I like to put "lose end" comments at
>the left margin so I can find them more easily by skimming, and it's
>really annoying to have to move every line back to the margin by hand.)
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

Are you now using a different version of ada-mode than before?

Has there been any change to your .emacs?

John

Best Regards
John McCabe

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