From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3 Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:49:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83k12zz6ds.fsf@gnu.org> <054393f3-3873-ab6e-b325-0eca354d8838@gmx.at> <20200403174757.GA8266@ACM> <20200405111623.GB5049@ACM> <20200406121449.GB7100@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="76847"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, eliz@gnu.org, rrandresf@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 07 04:50:28 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jLeJn-000Jtz-Up for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2020 04:50:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40074 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLeJm-0005OE-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:50:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jLeIe-0004US-2J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46567) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jLeId-00043n-Ue; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jLeIa-0000dH-Sc; Mon, 06 Apr 2020 22:49:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200406121449.GB7100@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 6 Apr 2020 12:14:49 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:246579 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yes, that is what I meant. The "kind of things" is nothing more than > writing comments in C (etc.) source code. Sooner or later, such a > comment has a parenthesis in it, and sooner or later (e.g. by M-q), this > will end up in column 0, I am surprised, because that never happens to me. I don't put a * at the start of each comment line, but I do indent each comment line and that should be enough to make sure no openparen fills into column 0. What do you think of such indentation as a solution for this problem. > My position at the moment is that the o-p-i-c-0-i-d-s mechanism should > remain active, but that we should fix the bugs in it such that the > backward scanning would only stop at a column-0 paren not in a comment > or string. I outlined one way of doing this in the thread called "A > proposal for the future of open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start", but > nobody has responded to the thrust of this post at all, as yet. If this can be done, I don't think I would argue against it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)