Make Emacs less aggressive about indentation

Question

Emacs reindents the current line whenever I type certain things, like \";\" or \"//\". This is pretty annoying, since there are a whole lot of places where it isn\'t smart

Answer 1

Try running c-toggle-electric-state to turn off the electric action of these characters.

You can do this as part of a c-mode-common-hook, or toggle the state manually by hitting C-c C-l.

Answer 2

most likely caused by the inline-and-indent 'feature' of c-mode and derivatives. emacswiki has several solutions.