From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Dan Nicolaescu' <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
rms@gnu.org, 3370@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3370: 23.0.94; `comment-region' indents comment chars inappropriately
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:38:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6sl4880.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460B8A8EC0204F4A830B9EC10995A169@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 25 May 2009 00:01:58 -0700")
> Why would everything else be equal? What's wrong with considering what
> Emacs has always done, and perhaps even thinking about breaking
> existing code (such as what I reported)? Everything else is not equal.
Emacs put the comment-starters at column-0 because that code was written
a looooonnng time ago and keeping things simple was more important
than now. Emacs-21's new commenting code was improved to be able to
comment and uncomment at other columns than column-0, which made it more
useful since most commenting styles use other indentation styles.
Emacs-21's default (as well as 22) was set to `plain' because Richard
always puts such comments at column-0 (the `plain' setting had actually
to be added specifically for this).
If you don't like it, just (setq comment-style 'plain) and live happily
ever after.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-25 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-24 23:31 bug#3370: 23.0.94; `comment-region' indents comment chars inappropriately Chong Yidong
2009-05-24 23:57 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 0:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-05-25 0:54 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-25 1:28 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-25 2:09 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 4:47 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-25 7:01 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 13:27 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-25 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 13:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-05-25 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 21:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-25 21:56 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 22:46 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-26 1:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-22 2:46 ` Glenn Morris
2009-05-25 5:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-05-25 7:02 ` Drew Adams
2009-05-25 13:30 ` Chong Yidong
2009-05-25 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-24 22:31 Drew Adams
2009-05-25 13:41 ` Stefan Monnier
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