From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp. 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Ortega Ruiz" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:26:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44554 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.160505790724059 (code B ref -1); Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:26:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Nov 2020 01:25:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39573 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kcesk-0006Fy-Vw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:25:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:33506) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kcesj-0006Fp-QF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:25:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46768) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcesj-0004W9-KQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:34764 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcesi-0001PY-AQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:25:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcesf-0008eA-SI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:25:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/10 09:16:09 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:193063 Archived-At: since people are voting, here's my +1 for sexp (#;) comments. i've been programming in languages that have them almost daily for the last ten years, and find them invaluable, and better than block comments. for me, their main advantages are that i commonly have my point at the beginning of the sexp and don't need to move around to comment it out, and that they can nest very easily (by that i mean that #;#; would comment out the next 2 sexps, and so on). sexp comments also combine nicely with the fact that most of my movements over lispy code are sexp-based, and help me not commenting out by mistake closing parens. in the much fewer occasions i need a block comment, it's normally easy to use comment-region, and packages like paredit help there. (of course if we end up having only block comments, it's trivial writing an emacs command commenting out the next n sexps using them (or, heck, even /not/ using them) so i'm fine either way at the end of the day.) cheers, jao -- And what should they know of England who only England know? - Kipling