Stop automatic indentation and cursor movement while typing in major mode

Question

I've put together a simple major mode for syntax highlighting and indentation of AQL. This is my first, and I'm open to any suggestions there, but my question is more specific:

When I type two slashes to begin a comment, the moment I type the second slash the cursor jumps back to the beginning of the line, and the line is indented.

This even happens if I've already typed a bunch of code on the line. So if I have the following line (^ is the cursor):

for u in users
              ^

and then I start to put a comment at the end of the line, the moment I type two slashes the cursor jumps:

for u in users \\
^

What's going on here? I've tried playing with and disabling electric-indent-mode, and I've tried manipulating electric-indent-chars but have not been able to alter this behavior in any way.

Any thoughts on how to proceed?

Answer 1

Hmm found a workable solution Based on this answer

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11061453/in-emacs-how-to-disable-comment-auto-indent-in-c-c

I added the following to the mode's keymap (called custom-map below)

(define-key custom-map "/" 'self-insert-command)
(define-key custom-map "*" 'self-insert-command)

And all is resolved. Not sure if this is the right way, but it seems to work...