(comment-indent): Don't insert a fixed number of spaces.

diff --git a/lisp/newcomment.el b/lisp/newcomment.el
index e52231e..2a889e6 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;; Author: code extracted from Emacs-20's simple.el
 ;; Maintainer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 ;; Keywords: comment uncomment
-;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.32 2001/08/21 18:30:59 monnier Exp $
+;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.33 2001/09/01 21:19:45 monnier Exp $
 
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
@@ -446,10 +446,8 @@ If CONTINUE is non-nil, use the `comment-continue' markers if any."
          ;; If none, insert one.
          (save-excursion
            ;; Some comment-indent-function insist on not moving comments that
-           ;; are in column 0, so we insert a space to avoid this special
-           ;; case.  The check for (zerop comment-column) is used for cases
-           ;; where we're called from comment-indent-new-line.
-           (unless (zerop comment-column) (insert " "))
+           ;; are in column 0, so we first go to the likely target column.
+           (indent-to comment-column)
            (setq begpos (point))
            (insert starter)
            (setq cpos (point-marker))