From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:24:07 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4282B0B6-7580-4066-9BAD-369EAD238E2C@acm.org> <87pn4iagd6.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: Andrea Corallo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29798"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= , Lars Ingebrigtsen , 44554@debbugs.gnu.org, Vladimir Nikishkin , Richard Stallman To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 13 14:25:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ4g-0007db-4L for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:25:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37730 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ4f-0005ce-2s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:25:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ4Y-0005cN-8U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ4X-0004R7-V7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ4X-0000jk-PU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:25:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andrea Corallo Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:25:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44554 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 44554-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44554.16052738652779 (code B ref 44554); Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44554) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Nov 2020 13:24:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47258 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ3x-0000ik-3d for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:49320) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kdZ3t-0000ib-Sq for 44554@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mab (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTP id 0ADDO7LT012170; Fri, 13 Nov 2020 13:24:07 GMT In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:38:24 -0500") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:193230 Archived-At: Stefan Kangas writes: > Lars Ingebrigtsen 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