From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: jari <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: 19834@debbugs.gnu.org, Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr>
Subject: bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:46:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atoap0z3pd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egpwdezu.fsf@picasso.cante.net>
jari wrote:
> Please document this in
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables
>
> as semicolon seems to be a special case.
comment-start is a string, so trying to set it to ; rather than ";" is
simply a user-error.
I don't think "how to set a variable to a literal semicolon" is worth
documenting, since it's not something that you need to do.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-11 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-11 8:33 bug#19834: Specifying File Variables - does not allow setting comment-start to semicolon Jari Aalto
2015-02-11 9:26 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-02-11 18:18 ` jari
2015-02-11 18:46 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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