From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
To: 10868@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:22:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehtlykdr.fsf@gmx.li> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB139E6F33CC441B9C3798B66C9D52FE@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Read the bug #3370 thread, if you want to understand the problem.
>> Unfortunately, I did. It is long-winded and goes nowhere.
>> I encourage everyone else not to bother.
> Is it really so hard to understand?
> "the doc string for `comment-style' (which is pretty much
> useless) refers to `comment-styles', which is not
> recognized (and therefore has no link)."
> emacs -Q
> C-h v comment-style
> Style to be used for `comment-region'.
> See `comment-styles' for a list of available styles.
> C-h v comment-styles
> Bzzzzt -not recognized - no such variable, no such "list of available styles"
> ... until you load newcomment.el.
[...]
OK, here's the problem, and here's a patch.
2012-02-23 Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
* lisp/newcomment.el: Autoload comment-styles (Bug#3370).
The docstring of comment-style refers the user to comment-styles for
details on what the values mean. However, this is not available until
after newcomment.el is loaded. So autoload comment-styles to avoid
this problem.
---
| 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
--git a/lisp/newcomment.el b/lisp/newcomment.el
index 16282af..cd887cb 100644
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ The `plain' comment style doubles this value.
This should generally stay 0, except for a few modes like Lisp where
it is 1 so that regions are commented with two or three semi-colons.")
+;;;###autoload
(defconst comment-styles
'((plain nil nil nil nil
"Start in column 0 (do not indent), as in Emacs-20")
--
1.7.9.rc0.23.g7e521
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-23 9:22 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
2012-02-22 18:11 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-22 19:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-02-23 9:22 ` Lawrence Mitchell [this message]
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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