Re: comment-padding type ?

[Pierre Lorenzon <devel@pollock-nageoire.net>]

Hi !

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: comment-padding type ?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:06:46 -0400

>> But in function comment-padright we find this piece of code :
> 
>>     (let ((s (match-string 1 str))	;actual string
>> 	  (lpad (substring str 0 (match-beginning 1))) ;left padding
>> 	  (rpad (concat (substring str (match-end 1)) ;original right padding
>> 			(substring comment-padding ;additional right padding
>> 				   (min (- (match-end 0) (match-end 1))
>> 					(length comment-padding)))))
> 
>> where comment-padding is actually supposed to be a sequence and
>> not an integer. Actually in one mode comment-padding was set to
>> 1 and I got an error when trying to execute
>> comment-padright. When setting the value to " " everything goes
>> well ! 
> 
>> In my opinion the comment-padding documentation is
>> abusive. Either it should be changed or a conversion mechanism
>> should be added.
> 
> There is a conversion mechanism.  It's in comment-normalize-vars which
> you failed to call (and whose importance I obviously fail to make
> clear, in the doc).

  OK ! it works now. 

  Thanks !

  Pierre


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