Hopefully I'm not too late in adding my voice to those who want to keep the
traditional `style' in lisp comments, too.

I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet, but besides being font-locked,
it's autopaired by default in elisp-mode with electric-pair-mode, which is
nice, IMO.

João

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 14:08 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:

> On 17.09.2021 15:09, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stefan@marxist.se,
> >>   juri@linkov.net, rudalics@gmx.at, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> >> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:25:31 +0300
> >>
> >>> How many are "en masse"?  We have less than a dozen people claiming
> >>> they want `..' back, that's hardly a "masse" in my book.
> >>
> >> I don't see anybody concur with your stance in this particular
> >> discussion, and if you search the old one, I think it was mostly Paul
> >> (?), and even he was really arguing toward something different, in a
> >> different context as well (plain text files).
> >
> > It doesn't matter.  This is a decision we already made, so just saying
> > you don't like it is not good enough.  We need a much stronger reason
> > to reverse previous decisions.
>
> The cost of backtracking is low, so yes, if people even simply say "we
> don't like it", it should be changed.
>
> I've listed particular reasons as well, but what does it matter: you
> ignore those parts of messages.
>
> >>> This one isn't, because we have been using it for many moons now.
> >>> Some of it is practically impossible to undo, because it's in Git
> >>> commit log messages.
> >>
> >> Again, look at this discussion: nobody is disputing the format of log
> >> messages.
> >
> > Not true.
>
> Nobody in *this discussion*. People being casually careless is nothing
> new, OTOH.
>
> > If you look at the commit log messages, even the latest
> > ones done today, you will see that almost everyone disputes that part.
>
> This is orthogonal to this discussion. Please don't derail it.
>
>