* lisp/progmodes/idlwave.el (idlwave-comment-indent-char):
Use a space since that is clearly what was meant.
?\ at the end of a line (ie, ?\LF) never was well-defined and produced
-1 most of the time, but will soon raise an error (bug#55738).
This doesn't matter much becaue this variable is unused.
;; Note that this is documented in the v18 manuals as being a string
;; of length one rather than a single character.
;; The code in this file accepts either format for compatibility.
-(defvar idlwave-comment-indent-char ?\
+(defvar idlwave-comment-indent-char ?\s
"Character to be inserted for IDL comment indentation.
Normally a space.")