Re: comment-dwim and uncommenting

[Stefan Reichör]

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Stefan Monnier outgrape:

> > When I use comment-dwim to comment and uncomment a region, the
> > uncomment leaves one space that I don't want.
> > For example the file hello.cpp:
> > 
> > Initial content
> > 
> > void main() {
> >   int a=3;
> >   printf("hello world");
> >   a=a*2;
> > }
> > 
> > Called comment-dwim on the line printf...
> > 
> > 
> > void main() {
> >   int a=3;
> > //   printf("hello world");
> >   a=a*2;
> > }
> > 
> > Called comment-dwim on the line //   printf...
> > 
> > void main() {
> >   int a=3;
> >    printf("hello world");
> >   a=a*2;
> > }
> > 
> > Now the printf... line has an extra space at the beginning.
> > I would like to get the original (correctly indented) content.
>  
>  I can't reproduce it with `emacs -q --no-site-file ~/tmnp/foo.cc'.
>  Can you give us some more information ?
>  
>  
>       Stefan

Hi Stefan,
I tried it also with emacs -q --no-site-file and it worked for me.

However I found out, that I have the following statement in my .emacs:
(setq comment-padding 0)

When use this, I get the behaviour I described above.

Stefan.