Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:

> Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
>> text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> I propose to add such an indicator to CRM by default. Above I have
>>> chosen the tag "CRM" for its shortness, but a more user friendly
>>> solution might require a longer more descriptive name. Furthermore the
>>> code above extracts the separator from the regular expression
>>> `crm-separator', which is not robust for all separators.
>>
>> How about " [comma-separated list] "?
>>
>> I'd also propose we should have a defcustom for it, allowing users to
>> set it to something shorter if they want.
>
> Yes, this would look good. Note that `crm-separator' can be set to an
> arbitrary regular expression. How can we turn `crm-separator' into a
> string like "comma-separated list"? Maybe `crm-separator' should be
> generalized? One could set it to a cons ("," . "comma-separated list")
> with the regexp in the car and the description in the cdr. In cases
> where `crm-separator' is a string, we could use a generic string like
> "[multi list]".

I have attached a patch to this mail which implements this proposal.

Daniel