From: David O'Toole <dto@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comment-add
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:39:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zlzbkrsc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ir5zwu4j.fsf@escher.local.home
Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
> How many more comment chars should be inserted by
> `comment-region'. This determines the default value of the
> numeric argument of `comment-region'. This should generally stay
> 0, except for a few modes like Lisp where it can be convenient to
> set it to 1 so that regions are commented with two semi-colons.
>
> doesn't reflect the default behavior in Lisp mode, which is now to
> comment regions with three semi-colons, given the default
> comment-style 'plain. If the default comment-style were changed to
> 'indent, then the doctring would (once again) be accurate. If the
> default comment-style is kept 'plain, the change in behavior should
> be mentioned in NEWS.
I noticed the new default behavior and didn't like it---it turns every
line of the commented region into a headline matching outline-regexp
(and gets font-locked due to some snippets in my .emacs). Is this
really what was intended?
--
David O'Toole
dto@gnu.org
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 22:55 comment-add Stephen Berman
2007-09-25 9:39 ` David O'Toole [this message]
2007-09-25 23:35 ` comment-add Richard Stallman
2007-11-06 20:59 ` comment-add Tassilo Horn
2007-12-10 15:19 ` comment-add Richard Stallman
2007-12-10 19:41 ` comment-add Tassilo Horn
2007-12-11 19:00 ` comment-add Richard Stallman
2007-12-11 20:34 ` comment-add Tassilo Horn
2007-12-15 21:36 ` comment-add Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 16:07 ` comment-add Stefan Monnier
2007-09-25 21:48 ` comment-add Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 17:57 ` comment-add Richard Stallman
2007-09-25 22:27 ` comment-add Leo
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