From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 33913@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33913: 26.1; Optionally not font-lock newline char when `comment-end' = ""
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:20:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgnaox9x.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8712bcf4-a44a-4336-b398-e59202165fb6@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:39:58 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> Please consider letting users easily (e.g. user option) not highlight a
> newline character when it ends a comment, such as in Lisp.
>
> The effect should be to highlight only the chars of the line, starting
> with `comment-start', up to but not including the newline char.
>
> (I never would have noticed how annoying the default behavior is if I
> hadn't tried putting a background color on comments, as the OP did. I
> don't even think it should be the default behavior to highlight the
> newline char.)
I agree that this would have been useful earlier, but Emacs now has
support for not extending faces to the end of the line when the newline
has a face, so this no longer seems pertinent, and I'm closing this bug
report. If others think that it's still worth doing something about,
please reopen.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-29 22:39 bug#33913: 26.1; Optionally not font-lock newline char when `comment-end' = "" Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.6534.1546123809.1284.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-30 11:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <mailman.6551.1546170751.1284.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-12-30 12:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2018-12-30 17:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-12-30 17:46 ` martin rudalics
2018-12-30 18:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-12-30 19:00 ` martin rudalics
2019-10-30 19:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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