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Re: comment-padding type ?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: comment-padding type ?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:06:46 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> But in function comment-padright we find this piece of code :

>     (let ((s (match-string 1 str))    ;actual string
>         (lpad (substring str 0 (match-beginning 1))) ;left padding
>         (rpad (concat (substring str (match-end 1)) ;original right padding
>                       (substring comment-padding ;additional right padding
>                                  (min (- (match-end 0) (match-end 1))
>                                       (length comment-padding)))))

> where comment-padding is actually supposed to be a sequence and
> not an integer. Actually in one mode comment-padding was set to
> 1 and I got an error when trying to execute
> comment-padright. When setting the value to " " everything goes
> well ! 

> In my opinion the comment-padding documentation is
> abusive. Either it should be changed or a conversion mechanism
> should be added.

There is a conversion mechanism.  It's in comment-normalize-vars which
you failed to call (and whose importance I obviously fail to make
clear, in the doc).


        Stefan





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