Re: comment-add

[David O'Toole]

Stephen Berman <address@hidden> 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 
address@hidden
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/