"George Nurser" wrote:
> I've been editing a certain fortran file with emacs, and it has put
> the code into something called (Fortran/t ) mode. In this mode certain
> commans, such as C-M-j behave rather strangely.
The file has some tab characters in the first 100 lines, which has
caused fortran.el to assume it is in "tab format", which is a fortran
variety with some special formatting rules.
> What is this mode for, and how do I go back into straight Fortran
> mode if I so wish?
Set indent-tabs-mode to nil in that file. Or set fortran-analyze-depth
to 0 if you don't want this feature.