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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: M-x comment-region
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:05:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy7bmi5o8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6he8kai.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:57:25 +0900")

> [It's not that I object or anything, it's just that I'm confused as to
> why there's so much fiddling around with comment-region in the specific
> case of lisp-mode.  I assume there must be _some_ reason, as
> newcomment.el seem to go to a lot of trouble to do this...]

AFAIK, the only reason is that Richard *really* likes it this way.
I guess it was written on one of the ten tablets, or something like that.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-23  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-22 21:08 M-x comment-region Richard Stallman
2007-12-22 21:57 ` Miles Bader
2007-12-23  1:05   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-23 21:12   ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-24  3:48   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2007-12-23  8:24 ` Tassilo Horn

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