From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin-kemp@brusseler.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Using comment characters for specific major modes Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 01:47:29 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4839"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Jean Louis" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 06 01:48:31 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 1lpg1n-00012V-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2021 01:48:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60992 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpg1m-0007i6-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:48:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpg1P-0007eU-B3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:48:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ip-15.mailobj.net ([213.182.54.15]:43826 helo=msg-4.mailo.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lpg1M-0007tK-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:48:06 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=brusseler.com; s=mailo; t=1622936849; bh=yq7jcZmwHJOZKCvwb6RQVif1UvVjNeUCSA91r9iN2xo=; h=X-EA-Auth:From:To:Cc:Date:Subject:MIME-Version:X-Mailer: Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=tHXEcU4W91msbDXnXk+BKD3vgh/L5/x9kllOOAuPv+IRrReiOWRrSs6T4PYS+uGw0 lbntO8XIFQQR6vtsk8tUjP17xYiWpXM5/RAZ4fYQYDc/V9Ij9oKrJ9p3MesY2BQzE4 swhRsmH89k6FkK+mUpMwoB9afqVLUm2Yh2U8QpeU= Original-Received: by www-8.mailo.com with http webmail; Sun, 6 Jun 2021 01:47:29 +0200 (CEST) X-EA-Auth: qj4IAfmR/zVNHb7mNZcCXd29rbxl9+lsLxFFFq0g4XFw+NACpfJkptxdWKRNS60Rabf1t7OW60IX/fHwME00IC6ShpfFnHhh X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: COMS/EA21.01/r20210415 In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=213.182.54.15; envelope-from=martin-kemp@brusseler.com; helo=msg-4.mailo.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 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:130565 Archived-At: Ok, let's try again.=C2=A0 I have a string "s" composed of repeating the ch= aracter ";" lena times. At the front I want to prepend the major mode comment character twice, exc= ept for texinfo-mode. Initially "s" is ";;;;;;;;" when lena is 8 Then I will insert in the buffer the following=20 emacs-lisp-mode ;; ;;;;;;;; f90-mode !! ;;;;;;;; fortran-mode cc ;;;;;;;; texinfo-mode @c ;;;;;;;; To remove the confusion, suppose the character for "s" is "*" of length le= na Then I want to print emacs-lisp-mode ;; ******** f90-mode !! ******** fortran-mode cc ******** texinfo-mode @c ******** From: Jean Louis To: martin-kemp@brusseler.com Subject: Re: Using comment characters for specific major modes Date: 06/06/2021 01:32:09 Europe/Paris Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org * martin-kemp@brusseler.com [2021-06-06 02:21]= : >=20 > That uses the command (comment-dwim ARG), but I got to get the comment c= haracters > to append to the string "s". >=20 >=20 >=20 > =C2=A0 (setq-local s (concat ";; " (make-string lena ?\;))) >=20 >=20 >=20 > At least that was my plan.=C2=A0 You may know the proper way to do it > though. Describe it better, it is to me unclear what you need. --=20 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/