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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Glenn Morris'" <rgm@gnu.org>, <10868@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:06:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7AF76478FD534B8B9A07E9FB79060E64@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bnhayi4vl5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> > The problem is that variable `comment-style' is not explained.
> 
> comment-style is a variable defined in `newcomment.el'.
> Its value is indent
> 
> Documentation:
> Style to be used for `comment-region'.
> See `comment-styles' for a list of available styles.
> 
> comment-styles is a variable defined in `newcomment.el'.
> [...]
> ((plain nil nil nil nil "Start in column 0 (do not indent), 
> as in Emacs-20")
>  (indent-or-triple nil nil nil multi-char "Start in column 0, 
> but only  for single-char starters")
>  (indent nil nil nil t "Full comment per line, ends not aligned")
>  (aligned nil t nil t "Full comment per line, ends aligned")
>  (box nil t t t "Full comment per line, ends aligned, + top 
> and bottom")
>  (extra-line t nil t t "One comment for all lines, end on a 
> line by  itself")
>  (multi-line t nil nil t "One comment for all lines, end on 
> last commented line")
>  (box-multi t t t t "One comment for all lines, + top and bottom"))

You are just parroting the existing, insufficient doc.

Read the bug #3370 thread, if you want to understand the problem.  There is no
_explanation_ of `comment-style'.






  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-22 17:17 bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained Drew Adams
2012-02-22 17:38 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 18:06   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2012-02-22 18:11     ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 19:01       ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23  9:22         ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 14:31           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 15:35             ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 16:04               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 16:13                 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-25  3:08             ` Chong Yidong
2012-02-23 17:16           ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:22             ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-23 17:24             ` Lawrence Mitchell
2012-02-23 17:34             ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 21:48             ` Finding a variable before it's loaded Stefan Monnier
2012-02-23 22:29               ` Lennart Borgman

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