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'.
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=7AF76478FD534B8B9A07E9FB79060E64@us.oracle.com \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=10868@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=rgm@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.