GNU bug report logs - #44554
27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for Emacs Lisp.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:05:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 57966

Found in versions 27.1, 28.1

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From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
To: Vladimir Nikishkin <lockywolf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>, 44554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44554: 27.1; Feature request: SRFI-62 style comments for  Emacs Lisp. 
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:10:54 +0100

mark-sexp (C-M-SPC) followed by comment-region already works, doesn't it? Not obvious that SRFI-62 comments would be substantially better.

I would very much like not having to update code that parses, lexes, searches, matches, pretty-prints, fontifies, navigates in, browses, indexes or otherwise recognises elisp surface syntax, that I have written over the years in various places -- at least not without a really good reason. Likely I'm not alone.

Sorry about the downbeat tone! I really don't mind syntax improvements, but here it seems unclear that the benefits would outweigh the costs.
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