Re: The current state of the comment-cache branch

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Dec 29 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:58:53 -0800
>> 
>> >> I would hope that Emacs is used not only to edit its own source code but
>> >> also other code, for which these standards don't apply.
>> >
>> > It is, but how is that relevant to the issue at hand?  The issue at
>> > hand is how does open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start affect C code
>> > editing.  The intent of my reference to GNU standards was to point
>> > out that having an opening brace in column zero is a very frequent
>> > situation in the C sources of any GNU project, and therefore saying
>> > this convention is not useful for C flies in the face of the reality
>> > right under our feet.
>> 
>> What I meant is that setting open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start to t
>> in general is not a good idea, because it does not work for all C
>> files. So for this option to be useful, you'd have to do set it
>> conditionally - which IMO restricts its usefulness a lot.
>
> We have that option set to t for a long time, so the decision whether
> to do it was already made, and any problems that could cause are
> already with us.

Yes. Therefore, I think applying a patch that eliminates the need for it
completely would be a good thing.


Best,
-Nikolaus
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