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From: admin@cs.exeter.ac.uk (Khalid Sattar)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: questions on fortran mode
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Date: 28 Nov 88 11:25:37 GMT
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I am sending this on behalf of a user who is not on USENET so please
email him directly

He is running gnu emacs 18.51 and has the following quries:-


   Firstly, I would like to know how to set the character to be treated
as a comment line marker in fortran. i.e is it possible to customize EMACS
so that it recognises say 'c...' as a comment 'character' and set the TAB
key to correctly indent the line.

   Secondly, is it possible to prevent long lines of fortran code being
indented out of the 72 column window when indenting an old unindented
program using 'indent-region'. It would be useful if any code that would
otherwise go beyond 72 columns could be automatically continued on a
continuation line i.e with '$' prefix on a new line ......without splitting
fortran commands.
         
                                                robert

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Khalid Sattar			JANET: admin@uk.ac.exeter.cs 
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University of Exeter