Re: comment-dwim has no behavior to comment out the current line without a region

[Stefan Monnier]

> The proposed diff adds the following additional behavior:

> If the point is at `line-beginning-position' (and the region is inactive),
> call `comment-region'
>   on the whole line (unless the line consists of comments, in which
>   case it calls `uncomment-region').

Sadly, BOL is a very common starting point to perform comment-indent,
which is what M-; does currently (and has done for ages) instead of
commenting out a region.

So I don't think this new behavior is compatible with the current use of
M-;.


        Stefan