From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /* */ style comments in C++ sources Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:10:14 +0300 Message-ID: <838tlmm8hl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83shjvmmeq.fsf@gnu.org> <20170523203144.GB10407@acm.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495649446 16361 195.159.176.226 (24 May 2017 18:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 18:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Mastro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 20:10:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDak6-00047b-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 20:10:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDakB-00082i-F5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDak0-00081U-2y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDajw-0003Nr-3a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDajw-0003Nn-0W; Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2078 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dDaju-0003GD-MR; Wed, 24 May 2017 14:10:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Mastro on Wed, 24 May 2017 10:19:20 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215176 Archived-At: > From: John Mastro > Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:19:20 -0700 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > No, there is no (reasonable) way to tell CC Mode what style of comments > > one prefers. > > > > People have asked about this before. It seems like it would be a useful > > facility to add. Though it might take a surprisingly large amount of > > work to implement. > > I'm probably missing something obvious, but I thought setting > `comment-start' and `comment-end' worked for this? It's very inconvenient, for starters. Using a supported language feature shouldn't require the user to mess with tricky regexps, IMO.