From: Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>,
"Lars Ingebrigtsen" <larsi@gnus.org>,
44554@debbugs.gnu.org, "Vladimir Nikishkin" <lockywolf@gmail.com>,
"Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:24:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjf361de6fc.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnC8AbfEHqbOKKEG5fjZ7JUTNUrEMjQQuStgpfczZu0Fw@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:38:24 -0500")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> The question is whether this feature is useful enough to warrant the
>> pain inflicted, and... I guess there isn't all that much enthusiasm for
>> it? To me it sounds more like "that'd be neat" instead of "yeah, I can
>> see myself using it all the time".
>
> FWIW, I for one would appreciate SRFI-62 style comments. I often find
> myself commenting out otherwise valid sexps, and the added convenience
> would be nice. Just today I had a debugging session where they would
> have definitely made things a bit more comfortable, especially given
> that they nest easily.
>
> That said, I won't exactly bring out the torches and pitchforks if the
> proposal gets rejected.
>
> (I don't have enough experience with Common Lisp to say much about the
> #||#-comments.)
My 2 cents,
I like the idea of a dedicated syntax to comment out sexps.
That said I believe `comment-dwim' solves already this problem to a good
degree for me.
given:
(foo (bar))
having as a region '(bar)' M-; produces
(foo ;; (bar)
)
I indeed use it quite frequently.
Andrea
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-10 14:04 bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-11-10 14:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-10 15:11 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-11-10 17:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-13 18:32 ` João Távora
2020-11-10 19:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 5:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-11-11 5:48 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 8:18 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-11-11 8:25 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 14:18 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-11-12 23:55 ` Eduardo Ochs
2020-11-11 8:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-11 22:50 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-11-10 17:17 ` Francesco Potortì
2020-11-10 23:18 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
2020-11-11 16:10 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-11 16:14 ` Vladimir Nikishkin
2020-11-11 16:25 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-12 12:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-12 18:16 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-12 20:11 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-12 20:44 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-13 0:38 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-13 13:24 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-11-13 13:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-11-13 14:07 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-13 21:03 ` Tassilo Horn
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