From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:06:02 -0800 Message-ID: <7AF76478FD534B8B9A07E9FB79060E64@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1329934009 21196 80.91.229.3 (22 Feb 2012 18:06:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:06:49 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Glenn Morris'" , <10868@debbugs.gnu.org> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 22 19:06:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S0GaU-0004a5-9e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:06:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0GaT-0006rv-HE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Read the bug #3370 thread, if you want to understand the problem. There is no _explanation_ of `comment-style'.