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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiline Comments
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:08:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-2256fcca-6490-46d4-8e15-abb330c369bb-1604934527523@3c-app-mailcom-bs07> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d00mppdt.fsf@fastmail.fm>


> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 at 3:37 PM
> From: "Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Multiline Comments
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 09 2020, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Fair enough.  I am currently making comments using a string.  This does not make
> > Elisp complain.
>
> Well, strings are Lisp objects, so they are OK. But be careful with using double
> quotes in your comments: they'll need to be escaped.

My comments are not very complicated.  But, you are correct, I then got to
escape double quotes inside strings.

> Still, the other problem that Michael pointed out still stands: `multic' returns
> a value (specifically nil), which may cause problems. You'll need to be careful
> where you use it.
>
> > I would then think you would use a function or a variable?
>
> Not sure what you mean by that. Use where? For what purpose?

To define a variable or a function to avoid some of the problems that occur with multic.

>
> --
> Joost Kremers
> Life has its moments
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-09 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-08 20:47 Multiline Comments Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  9:28 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-09 13:01   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 13:18     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 13:33       ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 13:55         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 14:37           ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 15:08             ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-09 15:23               ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 15:35                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 19:01                   ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-10  0:13                     ` Robert Thorpe
2020-11-10  0:36                       ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-09 17:51                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 10:10 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 12:14   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09 13:29     ` Joost Kremers

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