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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ <paranda@it.uc3m.es>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Just a thought about comment-line
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 13:15:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvo8q46nbe.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306c7cf5-6cfc-436e-a902-8ad4560b32d1@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 31 May 2020 09:58:20 -0700 (PDT)")

> For block commenting, `comment-dwim' doesn't let
> you nest and unnest a given level of commenting,

It automatically decides whether to comment or to uncomment, indeed.

> and control the number of comment chars used, etc.

Hmm... works for me.  At least `C-u 5 M-;` seems to correctly use 5 `#`
chars to comment the region when used in a Makefile.

>> FWIW I agree with you: a region that ends at the physical start of
>> line, before indentation, should not be considered to include that
>> line.
> FWIW, I too agree about this.

Right, as a general rule, the LF char belongs to the line that it
terminates, so a position at BOL is really "between lines".
Of course, that would require a special case when START=END=BOL.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-31 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-31  7:39 Just a thought about comment-line PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ
2020-05-31  9:57 ` Yuri Khan
2020-05-31 16:58   ` Drew Adams
2020-05-31 17:15     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-05-31 18:05       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-31 19:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-05-31 21:53           ` Drew Adams
2020-05-31 17:42     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-31 18:08       ` Drew Adams
2020-05-31 18:31         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-31 21:54           ` Drew Adams
2020-06-01  5:18             ` PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ
2020-06-01  5:29               ` PEDRO ANDRES ARANDA GUTIERREZ
2020-05-31 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-31 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2020-06-01  6:14 ` Clément Pit-Claudel

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