Subject: bug#1153 closed by Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#1153: default for comment-style not very good)

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Subject: Re: bug#1153: default for comment-style not very good
From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
To: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:24:01 -0800 (PST)

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

  > >> > > `comment-style' defaults to indent-or-triple.  
  > >> > > This makes a difference only for modes that use a single character
  > >> > > comment syntax, comment-region will use three characters to comment.
  > >> > > For modes like assembly, shell, perl, etc this is very unusual way of
  > >> > > commenting.  Even for elisp, triple ; is not the most used way of
  > >> > > commenting.  Hence this version should not be the default, a more
  > >> > > appropriate default would be 'indent.
  > >> > Agreed.
  > >> OK to make that change then?
  > > Ping...
  > 
  > Fine by me.
  > 
  > 
  >         Stefan

Thanks.

>From [email-masked] Sun Oct 12 19:24:22 2008
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:24:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Nicolaescu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: default for comment-style not very good
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`comment-style' defaults to indent-or-triple.  

This makes a difference only for modes that use a single character
comment syntax, comment-region will use three characters to comment.
For modes like assembly, shell, perl, etc this is very unusual way of
commenting.  Even for elisp, triple ; is not the most used way of
commenting.  Hence this version should not be the default, a more
appropriate default would be 'indent.