Re: fill-comment-paragraph appears to insert TAB despite indent-tabs-mode

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm trying to fix the attached bug, and am not getting very far.  However,
> I have at least located the code that is inserting a tab:
> fill-comment-paragraph (CVS version 1.170), line 814.  That code
> looks suspicious to me:

>               (if has-code-and-comment
>                   (concat (make-string (/ (current-column) tab-width) ?\t)
>                           (make-string (% (current-column) tab-width) ?\ )
>                           (buffer-substring (point) comin))
>                 (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position) comin))

> It seems to be inserting tabs unconditionally, rather than honoring
> `indent-tabs-mode'.  Is this correct?

You got it!

And I can happily reject the fault onto someone else ;-) : the bug was
already present in lisp-mode for ages, I just have spread it to many
more modes.

Should be fixed now, thank you.


        Stefan