From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Dimech Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Multiline Comments Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:08:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zh3qheg3.fsf@web.de> <874klyr6y7.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87d00mppdt.fsf@fastmail.fm> 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="30114"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Joost Kremers Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 09 16:11:55 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 1kc8pl-0007gP-W9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:11:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46268 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc8pk-0004oo-QK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:11:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54386) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc8mw-0004Vx-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:48365) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kc8mr-00063f-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:08:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1604934527; bh=Z/Wytj0fuxhSRVuvMmjgW4QY810SUtu6robp/AiBonA=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=YIH8H+Gq/o7M0km1u3DPnYhgSMO9nWzu7VW6dqjOHDk9q4j+h+eDRdlxWVoMhID1L 5k4c1LYSmyjko9j+h2JFFiFnw38Vmps3G4vkHCNeEfCdgep7lKdYBGDz222+/kMctM iAUPfM8eM0KsB8sv5zZiDmKiA4zITTPoZ9DXaN4U= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Original-Received: from [213.165.168.94] ([213.165.168.94]) by web-mail.gmx.net (3c-app-mailcom-bs07.server.lan [172.19.170.175]) (via HTTP); Mon, 9 Nov 2020 16:08:47 +0100 Importance: normal Sensitivity: Normal In-Reply-To: <87d00mppdt.fsf@fastmail.fm> X-UI-Message-Type: mail X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:kD86rQe6LhI+WV4vXZwZuj+OLTnbI5sLUPsWu4NQSEIGPmWqgs03F7jNodx2t7lxpISz/ 5fG+2OhqE6iybk07JoO/qBz6KV8eWwUg7cIldR6Mh65vp10q8QuT7sTfJHj24eRa7cAWYbPv6Abw skbi7XWolAdLLWFyoTnkjbGzjL3viaBHI7gE2uXKjuB4eyPApwn1RItpgTYWXj8VccYZEzFxyszb vFR+HT4t49YZC/ocS9bUBUvNJn30FotWZMcHuq1Z/5Y2kQ/8ECQ6lpScGcJnig303E61dqyoplib HY= X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:kw7AavZdYnA=:UuZdPQ27R1ZZIVX/7MNIh3 LKB1z0rWJ83kODO0AfZIk0ALoa3nR4lt/LYPeEzswrr3T0lVL9t2SU5BW28BD9kb5hAh7aqgA VDfNSdsWXb9kG9pd2DbG7nWRtvPpYVe5nBk2eoqqxgV7p4frb00QNQiZn+sHmP5aMH+0Bh2Lt qfHX/p/rRcAj1ANc3T1oIxJjo+P1dO9LYlF9Zs//pSLr0QAcpnhph/IA/kxeQcCIQ4x/ZVf0V EJ/CDcylmLdR4AVKDhOKEF5d/IwTci6OLcuJzMguIQmcQOJTo0z9jzNaTDcGNEbfgtAKkcrsG 5uWIxaPJHFc5xukp4R4jpEBPD1KkG4gElT6s07UNgPtT0Q43L0GQfHWFoM6snoB2Kb4A93X8J HBv+2M5Y1fvF4ZqaxouNY13NJ03fnvbGsjpyPL1DUiAWPDTRgB2FTHTrLKkY8c/t0lPOzLG25 FruzH7utUSx8yXrMCQQ0UbuEoy7/TxADL737+Uu/e3R8sr0BxSwoIQsr44kQ28NFxzed9a6tB Ywgquf3cbDwEDFxsgvRNWLhd4n2oXDeeEljmJjtGutrvFOjOGX6k5XWZtlocKnA9NRvAtIDK+ Hs91pOvhUIbTQ= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.227.17.20; envelope-from=dimech@gmx.com; helo=mout.gmx.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/09 08:18:56 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:125132 Archived-At: > Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 at 3:37 PM > From: "Joost Kremers" > 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 doe= s not make > > Elisp complain. > > Well, strings are Lisp objects, so they are OK. But be careful with usin= g 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 occu= r with multic. > > -- > Joost Kremers > Life has its moments > >