From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davis Herring" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: python.el doesn't define `comment-start-skip' Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:43:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51665.128.165.123.18.1231882998.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: herring@lanl.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231883248 19526 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2009 21:47:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:47:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 13 22:48:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LMr7Z-0002OT-Cj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:48:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48202 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMr6I-0006jq-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMr2l-0003Ej-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMr2i-0003AZ-05 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:43:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58601 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMr2h-0003AJ-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.lanl.gov ([204.121.3.26]:40862 helo=proofpoint2.lanl.gov) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMr2h-000466-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:43:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov (mailrelay1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.101]) by proofpoint2.lanl.gov (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0DLhGU0000990 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:18 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA6D541FF1 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:18 -0700 (MST) X-NIE-2-Virus-Scanner: amavisd-new at mailrelay1.lanl.gov Original-Received: from webmail1.lanl.gov (webmail1.lanl.gov [128.165.4.106]) by mailrelay1.lanl.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6EA3541CC1 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:18 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by webmail1.lanl.gov (Postfix, from userid 48) id B4EC91518033; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:43:18 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from 128.165.123.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user 196434) by webmail.lanl.gov with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:43:18 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.2.lanl1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.7400:2.4.4, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2009-01-13_08:2009-01-08, 2009-01-13, 2009-01-13 signatures=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107832 Archived-At: It's implied in newcomment.el that `comment-normalize-vars' should be called before using the library, which creates `comment-start-skip' if necessary. However, many programming modes seem to define it themselves; cperl-mode uses "#+ *", and the old python-mode.el uses just "# *". Should this be added? Davis -- This product is sold by volume, not by mass. If it appears too dense or too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during shipping.