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29.0.50; latex-mode overrides my `comment-style` choice

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 55716 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55716: 29.0.50; latex-mode overrides my `comment-style` choice
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 08:26:16 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-05-30 20:24:33] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> The commit message doesn't explain why it changes `comment-style`.
>> Was that an oversight?
>
> Yes, sort of.  The change is wrong, and should be fixed a different way,
> I think.
>
> The problem is that if you have this:
>
> ---
> foo
>
> bar
> ---
>
> and comments out the blank line in the middle with `M-x comment-region',
> you get
>
> ---
> foo
>           %%
> bar
> ---
>
> Which doesn't seem right, so I assumed that `indent' didn't work for
> latex-mode.

Before your patch, this didn't comment out anything since it skipped
empty lines, thus the problem didn't exist.

> But that's probably a bug in the `indent' version instead,
> because `indent' should work in general.

Yes, it's a new problem introduced by the new functionality of
commenting out empty lines (and it probably affects more than just the
`indent` style, since most styles (other than `plain`) try to indent the
comment, IIRC).


        Stefan

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