Re: comment-dwim on blank lines

[Stefan Monnier]

> If comment-dwim is called on a non-blank line, it calls comment-indent
> to do the work of either inserting or indenting a comment. On a blank
> line, it does the work of inserting a new comment itself. Is there a
> reason for this difference in behaviour?

> It means that there isn't really any way for modes to customize what
> comment-dwim does on blank lines, other than by abusing
> indent-line-function. In particular, comment-insert-comment-function
> does not get called, which seems to contradict its doc-string.

It's clearly an oversight.  comment-insert-comment-function was added due to
a specific need and whoever implemented didn't look at other related cases.
Feel free to fix it.


        Stefan