From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10868: 24.0.93; `comment-style' needs to be explained Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <7AF76478FD534B8B9A07E9FB79060E64@us.oracle.com> <5b4nuizqj9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <3251750A293C4D74AAB64FD8672192CE@us.oracle.com> <87ehtlykdr.fsf@gmx.li> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330017481 6710 80.91.229.3 (23 Feb 2012 17:18:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10868@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lawrence Mitchell Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 23 18:17:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cIj-0005HD-RM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cIj-0002BG-A7 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cIb-0002AG-5L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cIQ-0005JR-5Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:17:45 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cIQ-0005JM-3Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:17:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cKo-0000Sn-Id for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:20:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:20:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10868 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 10868-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10868.13300175441705 (code B ref 10868); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10868) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Feb 2012 17:19:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52929 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cJq-0000RN-69 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:50781 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cJn-0000Qy-Hc for 10868@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:01 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S0cHN-0007Am-KQ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:16:29 -0500 X-Spook: Craig Livingstone event security Hamas Vince Foster X-Ran: }j)/"PWb'ocj')j/`]DjBT<`S4Q:?[cre0=O6Y;tk&*u`R=jt,sq_\eg[n-/73&Uw.>vKv X-Hue: green X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <87ehtlykdr.fsf@gmx.li> (Lawrence Mitchell's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:22:24 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57141 Archived-At: Lawrence Mitchell wrote: > 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. Then this is an instance of a general problem. See eg http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1768 for the same thing. IMO there should be a general solution rather than papering over every instance that occurs with more pre/autoloading.