Re: Just a thought about comment-line

[PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ <paranda@it.uc3m.es>]

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Hey,

thanks for all the answers so far. It's nice to see people getting
passionate about this.
I too had my code to deal with (bol-p end-of-region) and I'm passing it on
to people,
but I started writing a short introduction for students who get interested
in Emacs by
seeing how I use it and well, it'd be so much better for Emacs if I could
get one of the
FAQ answered by something like 'customise variable so-and-so to get your
desired
behaviour' instead of 'include <listing 100> in your .emacs.d/functions.el
and bind function
sensible-comment-lines to M-;'

I hope the discussion crystallises in some better future :-)

Best, /PA
PS: and as my signature translates ;-) "questions exist to be made, not to
be answered"

El dom., 31 may. 2020 a las 23:54, Drew Adams (<drew.adams@oracle.com>)
escribió:

> > > You're fairly sure for whom?  For you?  Not for me.
> >
> > The only complaints against comment-dwim I have seen
>
> I wasn't complaining about `comment-dwim'.
> I was saying that it's not the be-all and
> end-all.  I use it for end-of-line comments.
> And I use something else for block commenting.
>
> It doesn't matter to me if you use `M-;' for
> everything.  If you're happy that way, great.
>
> > were along the lines "I want to micromanage
> > how comments are made",
>
> I see.  If someone says your one-size-fits-all
> dream command doesn't fit all then their idea
> for doing something additional or different
> just wastes your time.  Sorry to hear that.
>
> > and not "this code-writing scenario becomes
> > suboptimal".
> >
> > Are you still writing code? I'm surprised,
>
> Surprise!  And irrelevant.
>
> > > Tell me why Common Lisp behavior for block comments
> > > (#|...|#) is missing?  I don't mean that those macro
> > > chars are missing, but that the block-commenting
> > > behavior (nesting, unnesting) is missing.
> >
> > You might want to elaborate.
>
> I think I did.  Maybe you can show us how
> `comment-dwim' provides the same behavior.
>
> > It definitely can create nested comments (i.e. in
> > the cases they are really needed, when you call it
> > on a region containing both commented and
> > non-commented lines).
>
> A bit of a tautology.  I can leap over buildings
> in a single bound, in the cases where that's
> really needed, which is when the buildings are
> at most 1-foot tall.
>
> Anyway.  The point of this thread is the problem
> with `comment-line' raised by the OP.  If you're
> curious why `comment-line' was added, since we
> already had `comment-dwim', see the thread I
> pointed to, where `comment-line' was discussed
> and added.
>


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PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

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