From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: /* */ style comments in C++ sources Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:37:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83shjvmmeq.fsf@gnu.org> <20170523203144.GB10407@acm.fritz.box> <83k257m1jp.fsf@gnu.org> <20170524205316.GA6009@acm.fritz.box> <83wp95ll7z.fsf@gnu.org> <20170525154841.GA5313@acm.fritz.box> <20170526091626.GA4643@acm.fritz.box> <20170615211006.GB6625@acm.fritz.box> <83wp8c1mgh.fsf@gnu.org> <20170616115013.GC2993@acm.fritz.box> <83efuk1305.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497620250 16740 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2017 13:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 13:37:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 16 15:37:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrRD-0003xX-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58931 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrRG-0004le-Ry for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrR9-0004lG-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrR4-0000Lq-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=40580 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrR4-0000LI-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLrQw-00038m-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:37:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3ZUlS41JKH9sL7mTGnJYPER6Gvc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:215668 Archived-At: >> Maybe I could amend the amendment for /* */ so that it would need only to >> set a variable in .dir-locals.el rather than calling a function. Would >> that work better? > Yes, setting a variable is better, since older Emacsen will just set a > variable which no code references. You can set `comment-start` and `comment-end` already just fine, and that will work with any old Emacs that supports .dir-locals.el (and not just for CC-modes). Stefan