should be of the form `#x...' where `x' is not a blank or a tab, and
`...' is arbitrary).")
+(defvar py-honor-comment-indentation t
+ "*If non-nil, single-# comments are a hint to subsequent line indentation.
+If the previous line is a comment which begins with a single `#'
+character (as opposed to `py-block-comment-prefix' -- normally `##'),
+then it's indentation is used as a hint for this line's indentation.
+When this variable is nil, all comments are skipped for indentation
+purposes, and a faster algorithm is used.
+
+Under Emacs 18, or old Emacs 19's, this variable has no effect, and
+the behavior is as if it were always non-nil.")
+
(defvar py-scroll-process-buffer t
"*Scroll Python process buffer as output arrives.
If nil, the Python process buffer acts, with respect to scrolling, like
;; will skip a blank or non-indenting comment line that
;; happens to be a continuation line too. use fast Emacs 19
;; function if it's there.
- (if (fboundp 'forward-comment)
+ (if (and (not py-honor-comment-indentation)
+ (fboundp 'forward-comment))
(forward-comment (- (point-max)))
(re-search-backward "^[ \t]*\\([^ \t\n#]\\|#[ \t\n]\\)" nil 'move))
;; if we landed inside a string, go to the beginning of that