From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: comment / uncomment region Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:49:08 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <410E6274.6070009@yahoo.com> References: <87isc339ir.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091461937 20961 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 15:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 17:52:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Brf6c-0000cH-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 17:52:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BrfA0-0003Ks-HG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:55:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 8YIt87QZbejNHGDmLV5xAQLG/w5EuhnLx1NlJ7jfS4WCmXsOA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124605 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19938 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19938 Pascal Bourguignon wrote: > Yes, that's because comment-start is a buffer-local variable. > You have to set it in your grammar buffer. > > You can do it manually with: > > M-x eval-expression RET (setq comment-start "//") RET > > or rather: > > M-x set-variable RET comment-start RET "//" RET > > > You could put this at the end of each of your grammar files: > > // Local Variables: > // comment-start: "//" > // End: > > Or, if you don't want to program a mode for your grammar files you > could have a find-file-hook that would check the file type (or file > name extension) and would initialize the buffer environment when it > finds that a grammar is being opened. Something like: > > (add-hook 'find-file-hook > (lambda () > (when (string-match "\\.grammar$" (buffer-file-name)) > (setf comment-start "//") > ;; ... > ))) Those are all good suggestions, but I would recommend trying out define-generic-mode: you can define your own major mode just by specifying 6 values, most of which are just lists of strings (keywords, etc.). -- Kevin Rodgers