From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Guldo K Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A couple rudimentary elisp questions Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:56:40 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86r7wde2zk.fsf@tiscaNuiteKureli.it> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078103021 4332 80.91.224.253 (1 Mar 2004 01:03:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 02:03:29 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AxbqC-0000ct-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:03:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Axbo7-0001zr-FP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:01:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!nntp.infostrada.it!twister2.libero.it.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xs3CMCjB0Y48qXzRTDe5E/0flOs= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.42.169.232 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@net24.it Original-X-Trace: twister2.libero.it 1078102600 151.42.169.232 (Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:56:40 MET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:56:40 MET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121380 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17336 exits funnel writes: > 1) Is there no way to specify multi-line comments? I > read the 'comments' section in the 'Emacs Lisp > Reference Manual' and it seems to indicate not, but it > seems kind of hard to believe. I'm trying to write a > custom c-style and it would be helpful if I could > comment/uncomment large chunks of my .emacs file and > reload it so I could try to figure out what's going > on. If there really are no multi line comments is > there any tricks for kludging it? I don't know of multiline comments, but I'm no emacs expert, and no programmer either... Anyway, perhaps you could use single-line commenting on a region; lisp-interaction-mode and the comment-region command. You have to mark the beginning of the region (C-spacebar) to do so. *Guldo*