From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:24:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170207212417.GC2490@acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbmufdk7l.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org>
Hello, Stefan.
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 17:33:29 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> char foo[] = "for (x = 0; x < n; x++) /* Loop header */\n";
> >> ^ ^
> >> where the user narrows to the string, then goes to EOL and does
> >> M-: (forward-comment -1)
> > Even if the user narrows to the string, it's still a string. It's not a
> > comment, and can't be one.
> As the user who did the above operation I beg to differ: I narrowed
> specifically because I wanted to treat this as the chunk of C code
> it is.
It would likely have been less work to have temporarily deleted the
first string quote.
> It would be arrogant for Emacs to claim it knows better than the user.
More arrogant than a user expecting C syntax to be superseeded?
As a matter of interest, what was the real use case for this, how often
do you do it, and how big would the loss be if you couldn't do it any
more?
> Stefan
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-02 20:24 Bug #25608 and the comment-cache branch Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-02 20:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-02 21:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-02 22:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-03 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-03 17:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-03 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-04 10:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-06 2:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-06 19:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-07 1:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-07 19:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-14 15:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-14 16:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-22 2:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-22 3:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-23 14:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-23 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-24 7:46 ` Tom Tromey
2017-02-14 21:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-16 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-18 10:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-18 13:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-12 2:53 ` John Wiegley
2017-02-12 8:20 ` Elias Mårtenson
2017-02-12 10:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-12 11:14 ` martin rudalics
2017-02-12 15:05 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-02-12 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-05 22:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-06 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 18:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-08 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-11 23:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-12 0:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-12 12:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-12 13:13 ` Juanma Barranquero
2017-02-12 15:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-12 17:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-12 20:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-13 1:47 ` zhanghj
2017-02-13 5:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-13 6:45 ` zhanghj
2017-02-13 7:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-13 7:59 ` zhanghj
2017-02-13 9:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-13 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2017-02-13 7:05 ` zhanghj
2017-02-13 7:16 ` zhanghj
2017-02-13 14:57 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-12 17:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-13 18:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-13 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-13 21:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-02 22:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-03 16:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-03 21:53 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-04 11:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-06 1:28 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-02-06 19:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-06 2:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-06 20:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-06 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-07 21:24 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2017-02-08 12:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-07 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-07 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-08 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-02 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-03 16:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-04 9:06 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-02-04 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-02-04 18:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2017-02-03 7:49 ` Yuri Khan
2017-02-03 18:30 ` Andreas Röhler
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