GNU bug report logs - #12583
latest org-mode changes exposes bug in `comment-forward' in newcomment.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Le Wang <l26wang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 11:08:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 12583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 12583 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 'Le Wang' <l26wang <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#12583: latest org-mode changes exposes bug in
	`comment-forward'in newcomment.el
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:48:40 -0400

>> > For my own use, I wonder whether I should be calling `c-n-v' before
>> > I make use of `comment-search-forward'.
>> Yes, you should.
> OK, thanks.  Please consider providing specific guidelines about this,
> somewhere.

I think the guideline "commands that use comment-* functions should call
c-n-v first" is a good approximation.

> OK, so it was only for a transition.  Presumably that means that some
> of those autoloads will be removed at some point.

Except that I don't know how to mark obsolete the auto-loading of
a variable, so the transition would be just as abrupt now as it would
have been then.
I guess we can remove autoloads one at a time and see when
someone screams.


        Stefan
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