From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /* */ style comments in C++ sources Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 21:49:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83shjvmmeq.fsf@gnu.org> <20170523203144.GB10407@acm.fritz.box> <838tlmm8hl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1495676964 10574 195.159.176.226 (25 May 2017 01:49:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 01:49:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 03:49:20 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 1dDhtv-0002cI-2a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 03:49:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57544 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDhu0-00040L-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 21:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35982) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDhtu-000404-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 21:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDhtq-0002KA-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 21:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=50776 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dDhtq-0002Jv-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 May 2017 21:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dDhtf-0002Hs-33 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2017 03:49:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:rMrWG9ng0wB6soJQWoQs8dou/NI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:215188 Archived-At: >> 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. These aren't regexps, they're plain strings. The only problem with them is that you have to be careful to set them together, and you need to know what to set comment-end to for LF-terminated comments. Stefan