From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#1153: default for comment-style not very good Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200810130224.m9D2O2d4000619@mothra.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier , 1153@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1223911945 12027 80.91.229.12 (13 Oct 2008 15:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:32:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 1153@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 13 17:33:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KpPP4-0004LN-VD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:32:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPO0-0007Sr-HW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPMy-00074S-Oy for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPMw-00074A-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51581 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPMv-000746-U4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:43177) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KpPMv-0005Kf-4W for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9DFTxQv028646; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:29:59 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m9DFP3qk027483; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:25:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:25:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 1153 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.122391107126173 (code B ref -1); Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:25:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 13 Oct 2008 15:17:51 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9DFHl9N026160 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:17:49 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPB5-0000tO-9S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPB3-0000rJ-Ex for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51596 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpPB2-0000rA-NC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:14892 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KpPB2-0002ab-7s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:44 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ah4FAA0D80jO+IL0/2dsb2JhbACBcrpwgWyBCIIe X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,403,1220241600"; d="scan'208";a="28344481" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-244.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.130.244]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 13 Oct 2008 11:17:42 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 16C3E701B6; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200810130224.m9D2O2d4000619@mothra.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:24:02 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:30:04 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:21440 Archived-At: > `comment-style' defaults to indent-or-triple. > This makes a difference only for modes that use a single character > comment syntax, comment-region will use three characters to comment. > For modes like assembly, shell, perl, etc this is very unusual way of > commenting. Even for elisp, triple ; is not the most used way of > commenting. Hence this version should not be the default, a more > appropriate default would be 'indent. Agreed. Stefan