From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Johan_Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A couple rudimentary elisp questions Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 01:57:52 +0100 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1078103009 4304 80.91.224.253 (1 Mar 2004 01:03:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 01 02:03:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Axbq7-0000cZ-00 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2004 02:03:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Axbp1-0002cz-Tr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:02:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.bahnhof.se!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: frealaf.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zG3fgKtgNt7C7Ib1qQMYAc7bml8= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:121381 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17335 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17335 exits funnel writes: > 1) Is there no way to specify multi-line comments? I read the > 'comments' section in the 'Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' and it seems > to indicate not, but it seems kind of hard to believe. Why? While Emacs Lisp does indeed not have multi-line comments, there are commands in Emacs for commenting and uncommenting regions. > I'm trying to write a custom c-style and it would be helpful if I > could comment/uncomment large chunks of my .emacs file and reload it > so I could try to figure out what's going on. If there really are no > multi line comments is there any tricks for kludging it? Reloading the entire file is the real kludge here. Reading this section in the manual should be helpful: (info "(emacs)Lisp Eval") > 2) I see alot of lists of the form (foo . bar). What does the dot > specify? (info "(elisp)Dotted Pair Notation") -- Johan Bockgård