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From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
	<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regexp with comment character of buffer
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:22:23 +0000	[thread overview]
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On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 7:19 AM, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tuesday, August 13th, 2024 at 7:13 AM, Yuri Khan yuri.v.khan@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 at 00:50, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Is the space part of 'comment-start'. It is difficult to say from the code.
> > 
> > You do not have to say that from code. You activate a buffer and do an
> > M-: comment-start RET, and look at the result in the echo area. Repeat
> > with a different mode.
> > 
> > Alternatively, you read Emacs sources, see that many but not all modes
> > set comment-start with a trailing space.

Users should not be doing that, and figure out additional things are being 
added for convenience.  It is not a good strategy.
 
> comment-start should not introduce a trailing space for convenience, but added
> later, so users can start writing the comment after a space.
> 
> > > Can I just use `comment-start` without trimming it ?
> > 
> > Since you’re using string-to-char which is documented to return only
> > the first character of the input string, it does not matter if you
> > trim the original string beforehand.



      reply	other threads:[~2024-08-12 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-12 10:08 Regexp with comment character of buffer Heime
2024-08-12 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 11:41   ` Heime
2024-08-12 12:26     ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 12:36       ` Heime
2024-08-12 17:11         ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 17:50           ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:13             ` Yuri Khan
2024-08-12 19:19               ` Heime
2024-08-12 19:22                 ` Heime [this message]

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