changeset 79308:c9be678e700b

(nroff-mode): Set indent-line-function. (nroff-indent-line-function): New function. (nroff-count-text-lines): Use nroff-forward-text-line rather than obsolete alias.

--- a/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el	Thu Nov 01 03:57:27 2007 +0000
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/nroff-mode.el	Thu Nov 01 03:59:48 2007 +0000
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) "\\\\\"[ \t]*")
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-column) 24)
   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-indent-function) 'nroff-comment-indent)
+  (set (make-local-variable 'indent-line-function) 'nroff-indent-line-function)
   (set (make-local-variable 'imenu-generic-expression) nroff-imenu-expression))
 
 (defun nroff-outline-level ()
@@ -161,6 +162,19 @@
 			      9) 8)))))) ; add 9 to ensure at least two blanks
       (goto-char pt))))
 
+;; All this does is insert a "." at the start of comment-lines,
+;; for the sake of comment-dwim adding a new comment on an empty line.
+;; Hack! The right fix probably involves ;; comment-insert-comment-function,
+;; but comment-dwim does not call that for the empty line case.
+;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2007-10/msg01869.html
+(defun nroff-indent-line-function ()
+  "Function for `indent-line-function' in `nroff-mode'."
+  (save-excursion
+    (forward-line 0)
+    (when (looking-at "[ \t]*\\\\\"[ \t]*") ; \# does not need this
+      (delete-horizontal-space)
+      (insert ?.))))
+
 (defun nroff-count-text-lines (start end &optional print)
   "Count lines in region, except for nroff request lines.
 All lines not starting with a period are counted up.
@@ -173,7 +187,7 @@
       (save-restriction
 	(narrow-to-region start end)
 	(goto-char (point-min))
-	(- (buffer-size) (forward-text-line (buffer-size)))))))
+	(- (buffer-size) (nroff-forward-text-line (buffer-size)))))))
 
 (defun nroff-forward-text-line (&optional cnt)
   "Go forward one nroff text line, skipping lines of nroff requests.