[comp.emacs] Query: how to avoid indenting to escaped comments with auto-fill?

kgk@cs.brown.edu (Keiji Kanazawa) (03/18/90)

Suppose I have auto-fill enabled and I insert an escaped comment
character.  When I fill up that line, emacs indents the next line,
thinking that the escaped comment character was in fact a real
comment character.  Is there a way to avoid this?

An example is the following TeX text:

There is only a 40\% chance of that it will be sunny tomorrow; however, the
                   % probability 

It happens in lisp mode as well.

(defun foo ()
  (format "The comment character in this string, i.e., \; is quoted, but
							; should 


Keiji Kanazawa
kgk@cs.brown.edu