From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using comment characters for specific major modes Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 00:50:25 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29129"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: martin-kemp@brusseler.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 05 23:51:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lpeCa-0007IA-1y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 23:51:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48522 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpeCY-0003M7-Ol for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:51:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpeCF-0003Lj-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpeCD-00086I-SA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 17:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.46]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000ADF27.0000000060BBF1CB.00004D06; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 14:51:07 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: martin-kemp@brusseler.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130558 Archived-At: * martin-kemp@brusseler.com [2021-06-05 23:52]: > Am using the following expression to make a line composed of ";" of length lena. > > The first two semicolons ";;" are for when I use elisp code. > >     (setq-local s (concat ";; " (make-string lena ?\;))) > > But I want to change the starting ";;" to be the comment character > of the major mode I am working with. > > For texinfo I want "@c", and for fortran-mode I want "c", and "!!" > for f90-mode. Those things I would always use as a function. Possibility is great that I misunderstand you due to short description of what you want. (defun my-fancy-thing () (interactive) (let* ((initial (completing-read "Comment: " '("1 ;;" "2 !!") nil t)) (comment (substring initial 2)) (lena 10) (string (make-string lena (string-to-char (substring initial 2))))) (insert (concat comment " " string)))) ;; ;;;;;;;;;; !! !!!!!!!!!! -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/