Re: Wrong default indents in message.el

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> "Arvid Grøtting" <arvidg@netfonds.no> writes:

>> I guess setting indent-line-function is the canonical right thing to
>>   do for a major mode, but indent-relative is just the wrong default
>>   choice.  tab-to-tab-stop or indent-relative-maybe come to mind.  Any
>>   other suggestions?

Won't work either -- see below.

>> [1] it's unusable with auto-fill-mode turned on in the current CVS
>>     version, as this message demonstrates.  Yes, this footnote gets
>>     all nice and shiny, but the main text doesn't.
>
> I remove the setting and let message-tab call indent-relative.  Hope
> now it is better.

I fear it is still broken.  Let's wait until column 72 where autofill
should happen.  Okay,

       it works somehow -- but I've set my tab width (stops) to 4, 8,
       12, 16, ...

Why do think it's a good idea to align the indented paragraph with
"happen" above?  If I try to set the indent function this way, more
    wierd things are happening:

(add-hook 'mml-mode-hook 
	  (lambda ()
	    (setq indent-line-function 'tab-to-tab-stop)))

Regarding indentation message.el coming with Emacs 21 (pre) behaves
    better at the moment :)

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