From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any elisp functions to tell whether the cursor is in a comment block? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:50:19 +0200 Message-ID: <487D0D8B.7050907@gmail.com> References: <87tzetis7w.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <71bcf427-442c-45b8-95d6-5f8289c85297@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <87iqv8sdyi.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <87mykk1b1r.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet><487BDF2F.8010202@gmail.com> <487C526A.6010806@gmail.com> <003201c8e685$3d7f9770$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216155109 30526 80.91.229.12 (15 Jul 2008 20:51:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Tom Tromey' , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 15 22:52:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KIrVk-0006D7-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:52:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrUs-0005vQ-GX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:51:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrUZ-0005vJ-H9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:51:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrUX-0005v7-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:51:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrUW-0005v4-Ua for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:39888) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIrUW-00018y-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:51:20 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:63867 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KIrUC-0003p6-7t; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:51:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <003201c8e685$3d7f9770$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080712-0, 2008-07-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KIrUC-0003p6-7t. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KIrUC-0003p6-7t 6f9ccfabcb60efc4245ddd0f78d5ef52 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55606 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> I am thinking about a page on EmacsWiki that holds the >> information. This page could for example have entries like >> >> === Tabkey2.el 21=n 22=y 23=y === >> elisp:tabkey2.el >> >> comment ... comment ... >> >> ELPA could then fetch information from this page. And users could too. >> >> The elisp pages on EmacsWiki could at the bottom have a link >> to this page. > > > A file-header field in each library file can give the same information. I use > this field, for example: > > ;; Compatibility: GNU Emacs 20.x, GNU Emacs 21.x, GNU Emacs 22.x > > However, the field value is free-form at present. A conventional form would let > tools pick up the value. > > An advantage is locality of reference and update: some developers are more > likely to update a file header field than a separate wiki page. Yes, that might be good too, but it can't be used for packages.