From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: M-x comment-region Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:02 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r6he8kai.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198371960 31758 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2007 01:06:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:06:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 02:06:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J6FI1-0003q1-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:06:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FHh-0001Tw-Al for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FHD-00011e-5k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FHC-00010u-I0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FHC-00010k-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:10 -0500 Original-Received: from zue-tix-bbcs-dynip-162-001.vtx.ch ([83.228.162.1] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J6FH5-0005T9-1I; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:03 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 4796DB40F4; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87r6he8kai.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:57:25 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85396 Archived-At: > [It's not that I object or anything, it's just that I'm confused as to > why there's so much fiddling around with comment-region in the specific > case of lisp-mode. I assume there must be _some_ reason, as > newcomment.el seem to go to a lot of trouble to do this...] AFAIK, the only reason is that Richard *really* likes it this way. I guess it was written on one of the ten tablets, or something like that. Stefan