From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#3370: 23.0.94; `comment-region' indents comment chars inappropriately Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:27:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87fxet9usz.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87prdynkm5.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <87tz3admt1.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <4A19F427.40606@gnu.org> <874ov9aivv.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <460B8A8EC0204F4A830B9EC10995A169@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Chong Yidong , 3370@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243289380 15802 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2009 22:09:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 22:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Dan Nicolaescu' , 3370@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, rms@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 00:09:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M8iMN-0003yF-Kz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:09:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8iMM-0004gd-UR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8iMH-0004g9-VO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8iMD-0004ej-8r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47233 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8iMD-0004eb-4W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:33688) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8iMC-0003a7-0S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n4PM9BFO019689; Mon, 25 May 2009 15:09:17 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n4PLo44u015712; Mon, 25 May 2009 14:50:04 -0700 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Chong Yidong Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:50:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 3370 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 3370-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B3370.124328781314398 (code B ref 3370); Mon, 25 May 2009 21:50:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 3370) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 25 May 2009 21:43:33 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu (CYD.MIT.EDU [18.115.2.24]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n4PLhTQG014393 for <3370@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Mon, 25 May 2009 14:43:30 -0700 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BB89857E21A; Mon, 25 May 2009 09:27:40 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <460B8A8EC0204F4A830B9EC10995A169@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 25 May 2009 00:01:58 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:09:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:28156 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Why would everything else be equal? What's wrong with considering what > Emacs has always done, and perhaps even thinking about breaking > existing code (such as what I reported)? Everything else is not equal. Obviously. But if changing the default provides significantly better behavior, there is case for doing it anyway. My point is that this default is indeed better. >> I think `indent' is a better comment style. For instance, all the >> Emacs sources use that style. > > If you are referring to ;; always being indented instead of starting a > line (which is not what I reported about), then no, there are plenty > of source code lines that start with ;; - in file headers, for > instance. The overwhelming majority of commented lines are indented, including file headers, which are indented to top-level (column 0).