From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ELisp Multiline Comments Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:49:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13430"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:XcmkHlu6qya/xftlICRI6BsnMg4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 10 16:50:24 2020 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 1kRGCW-0003QD-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:50:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55232 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRGCV-0005mw-HE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:50:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRGCC-0005mQ-Lz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:56518 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kRGCB-0002Tn-DG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kRGC9-00034L-Or for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:50:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/10 09:17:45 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:124415 Archived-At: > ELisp does not support multiline comments. > You have two options: > > - Use `;;` and make sure to either ignore them or strip them when using the > comments's content: > - Use unused arguments, e.g.: There's also option 3, use a string: " Multiline Comment " Where you have to be careful to only use at top level (i.e. between ELisp expressions rather than within an ELisp expression), and you have to be careful with the use of " within your comment. Stefan