From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Comments in assembly-mode and tabstops Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:46:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294123665 22448 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2011 06:47:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 06:47:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 07:47:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa0gH-00071Q-FU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:47:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa0gG-0003Yd-L5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:47:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55589 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa0f9-0003X2-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:46:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa0f7-0008Ip-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:46:31 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa0f7-0008IT-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa0f5-0006PO-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:46:27 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:46:27 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:46:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78153 Archived-At: On 1/2/11 8:19 AM, Mark Tilford wrote: > 1) If I want to comment out a few lines of assembly, I tend to: > - Move the cursor to the beginning of the line. > - Push semicolon > > Unfortunately, emacs decides to jump to the end of the line (or worse, > sometimes the middle of the line) before putting down the semicolon. > I have to use the method of: > - Move the cursor to the beginning of the line > - Push enter > - Push up > - Push semicolon > - Push delete > > This is very annoying. What's the intended way to comment out code in > assembly-mode (or disable the above behavior)? Isn't it the same as all modes? i.e. mark the beginning of the first line, move down, and type M-; > 2) I like a two or four space indention on my code. Unfortunately, > emacs tends to store this as a mix of tabs and spaces. > Is there a way to have emacs handle the combination of, say, a four > space indent and three levels deep stored as three tab characters, and > displayed with the width of 12 spaces? > > 3) I'm really used to the behavior of "If a line is wider than the > window, down arrowing only stops once on that line." Is there a way > to get this behavior back? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA