GNU bug report logs - #1153
default for comment-style not very good

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
Cc: 1153 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1153: default for comment-style not very good
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:17:42 -0400

> `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.


        Stefan
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