From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: avar@cpan.org (=?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x comment-region Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:48:34 +0000 Message-ID: <861w9cvjl9.fsf@cpan.org> References: <87r6he8kai.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198468695 26713 80.91.229.12 (24 Dec 2007 03:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 24 04:58:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J6eSR-0004iQ-3j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:58:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6eS6-0008U8-T1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6eJ6-0001af-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:48:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6eJ5-0001Zk-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6eJ5-0001ZZ-Ae for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:48:47 -0500 Original-Received: from u.nix.is ([208.78.101.240] helo=t) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J6eIy-00018O-5C; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=t.cpan.org ident=avar) by t with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1J6eIt-00071I-An; Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:48:35 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87r6he8kai.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:57:25 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:58:03 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85424 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > [It's not that I object or anything, it's just that I'm confused as to > why there's so much fiddling around with comment-region in the specific > case of lisp-mode. I assume there must be _some_ reason, as > newcomment.el seem to go to a lot of trouble to do this...] See "D.7 Tips on Writing Comments" in the Elisp manual for the conventions that are used for different number of semicolons in Elisp (and sometimes CL and Scheme) comments.