From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin-kemp@brusseler.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Using comment characters for specific major modes Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 11:14:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36280"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Jean Louis" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 06 11:15:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lposS-0009Bh-5y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:15:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47228 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lposR-0001Lk-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 05:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpos4-0001L9-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 05:15:05 -0400 Original-Received: from msg-2.mailo.com ([213.182.54.12]:40224) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpos0-0000vp-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 05:15:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=brusseler.com; s=mailo; t=1622970866; bh=dx7CK+oOfdyMYud7r3FIvzixXXH9a3ZtrU8v370Tmek=; h=X-EA-Auth:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:MIME-Version:X-Mailer: Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=FiooR70DPsI0F2OBvciWmrDPnB8GH9LxC0aJrt5B4gPc0Sk9T/oUw6546DQ/RaXbF f+mhxUyfSi6knlmpppe/76GbAI8NAlecttSStXQC59I4Z2h2pJ06FgXk4M68uVP5J/ 9QfUL4kcOqEFNz3OJRlCXYtcl8ZfVOCHDst2tehA= Original-Received: by www-8.mailo.com with http webmail; Sun, 6 Jun 2021 11:14:26 +0200 (CEST) X-EA-Auth: iV0P6Zfgk8RwWv2ATJN2FpeZhSLiTRFqnxAS9eEazZ00UOKcQ6+SqUteeKUmHfBOpsvdY8BdclwByTlfrW8F6ly697c3oKjt X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: COMS/EA21.01/r20210415 In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.12; envelope-from=martin-kemp@brusseler.com; helo=msg-2.mailo.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130576 Archived-At: You have been most helpful.=C2=A0 Others have given me other ways but have = found them too complicated=20 for me.=C2=A0 Forget using comment type functions, I will just set the var= iable "cm" directly. I am almost there.=C2=A0 I have now done =C2=A0=C2=A0 (let ((cm (cond ((eq major-mode 'emacs-lisp-mode) (do somethi= ng)) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 ((eq major-mode 'texinf= o-mode)=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (do something)) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 ((eq major-mode 'f90-mo= de)=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (do something)) =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 ((eq major-mode 'fortra= n-mode)=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 (do something)) What I need is to set "cm" to ";;" for 'emacs-lisp-mode, "@c" for texinfo-= mode etc. Have difficulty setting "cm" though. From: Jean Louis To: martin-kemp@brusseler.com Subject: Re: Using comment characters for specific major modes Date: 06/06/2021 02:43:58 Europe/Paris Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org * martin-kemp@brusseler.com [2021-06-06 03:40]= : > For emacs-lisp-mode I would like "s" to be >=20 > (setq-local s (concat ";; " (make-string lena ?\;))) (defun my-whatever () (interactive) (let ((s (cond ((eq major-mode 'adoc-mode) (do something)) ((eq major-mode 'markdown-mode) (do something)) (t s)))) (insert s))) You may use `cond' function to test the variable `major-mode' and accordingly return the value for `s' which you then insert in the buffer. --=20 Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/