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-rw-r--r--lisp/textmodes/ooutline.el5
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diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ooutline.el b/lisp/textmodes/ooutline.el
index 1f86c51b6e..88d4c595ec 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ooutline.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ooutline.el
@@ -227,6 +227,11 @@ See the command `outline-mode' for more information on this mode."
"Function of no args to compute a header's nesting level in an outline.
It can assume point is at the beginning of a header line.")
+;; This used to count columns rather than characters, but that made ^L
+;; appear to be at level 2 instead of 1. Columns would be better for
+;; tab handling, but the default regexp doesn't use tabs, and anyone
+;; who changes the regexp can also redefine the outline-level variable
+;; as appropriate.
(defun outline-level ()
"Return the depth to which a statement is nested in the outline.
Point must be at the beginning of a header line. This is actually