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Re: comment-kill and the state of the world
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Ian Zimmerman |
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Re: comment-kill and the state of the world |
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30 Oct 2003 15:59:52 -0800 |
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Ian> I'd tried that. comment-indent then leaves point in the wrong
Ian> place (right before the second hyphen).
Stefan> But that's the case as well if you call `comment-indent' with a
Stefan> pre-existing comment, right? So it's an unrelated bug which
Stefan> comment-padding-foo would not fix (one I remember fixing a while
Stefan> back, but probably only in Emacs-CVS). What was happening is
Stefan> that comment-indent skips the comment starter and the leading
Stefan> spaces to get to the actual content of the comment, but with an
Stefan> empty comment, that tends to leave you right before the
Stefan> commend-end which is not what you want when there's padding.
Ian> Even if the two branches can be made to behave the same now, the
Ian> more they change the harder it will be to achieve that.
Stefan> Feel free to write the patch for it. It already took
Stefan> significant effort to get things as they are, such that it all
Stefan> works the way all the major modes expect it, including using
Stefan> various combinations of comment-start, comment-end,
Stefan> block-comment-start, block-comment-end, comment-multi-line,
Stefan> various ways to call auto-fill, ...
Stefan> And don't forget to come up with a good argument to convince RMS
Stefan> that it's worth it to change the behavior of comment-indent (he
Stefan> happens to like code duplication, as odd as it sounds to most of
Stefan> us).
Stefan> A new pair of eyes will surely help to simplify the code, tho.
OK, looks like there's hope :-)
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- comment-kill and the state of the world, Ian Zimmerman, 2003/10/16
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/16
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Ian Zimmerman, 2003/10/17
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/17
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Ian Zimmerman, 2003/10/18
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/19
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Ian Zimmerman, 2003/10/23
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/24
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Ian Zimmerman, 2003/10/24
- Re: comment-kill and the state of the world, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/24
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