Re: CC Mode 5.31.3 (C++/lah); Fill misbehaviour in comment

[Alan M. <ac...@mu...>]

Hi, William!

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, William Morris wrote:

>Entering a comment into a file header, emacs behaves as if the fill-column is
>set to something small (instead of 78 actual).  The header looks like this:
>
>/*==========================================================================
> Alpha-numeric Text 
> ================================
>
> Project         Alpha-numeric Text
> Module          BOOTLCDACT
> Language        ANSI "C"
> Target CPU      Alpha-numeric Text
>
> =====================================================================
>
> File lcdact.h
> Declaration of LCDACT main function
>
> =====================================================================
> Initial author  :  wmo
>
> History of this file ( most recent date on top )
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Apr-06 wmo   <---
> Apr-06 wmo     Added action/behaviour definitions
> Feb-06 wmo     initial issue
> ============================================================================*/
>
>
>If I add text to the line marked '<---' (these chars are not in actual
>buffer), the text wraps when a space is entered.  If I put the cursor between
>the words "Added action" and enter a space, the space is inserted and the
>cursor moves on to the 'c' of "action" (ie I end up with "Added  action" as
>expected, but the cursor has moved).

I think you've got auto-fill-mode enabled.  :-)  There is a bug in one of
the routines which does auto filling.  As a workaround, you could disable
auto-fill-mode, and fill manually with M-q as required.

I hope I'll get this bug tracked down and fixed within the next few days.
Thanks for reporting it, and thanks even more for doing so with C-c C-b!
It would have been impossible to diagnose without this.

>--
>William Morris

[ CC Mode configuration snipped, but read with thanks. ]

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)