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It seems that whenever I press RET on my emacs init.el file comment lines that the previous line just randomly indents ~4 tabs. I only have a simple load path (nothing currently in there really except for load path and load org-mode).

Nothing happens when I press C-j in this position, only RET.

I am on Mac OS X 10.10, iTerm 2 using xterm-256color but I launch emacs -nw with TERM=xterm-16color because that is the only way that my colors work correctly.

Before RET

After RET

Any ideas of where I should be looking to solve this problem?

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  • Does it only indent comments or does it affect lisp code as well? At first guess I'd suspect an open sexp higher up that would indent to there.
    – Jonathan Leech-Pepin
    Sep 15, 2015 at 22:27
  • Can you show what Enabled minor modes are active from the output of the command C-h m
    – Emacs User
    Sep 15, 2015 at 22:50

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Use ;; (or more) instead of ; and this won't happen.

What you're seeing is (in conjunction with electric-indent-mode) expected behaviour, as by convention

Comments that start with a single semicolon, ‘;’, should all be aligned to the same column on the right of the source code. Such comments usually explain how the code on that line does its job.

See C-hig (elisp) Comment Tips RET

The comment-column variable determines the level of indentation for this style of comment.

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