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comment-dwim should easily allow mid-line comments

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7253: comment-dwim should easily allow mid-line comments
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:20:38 +0200

Am 21.10.2010 06:00, schrieb jidanni <at> jidanni.org:
>>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier<monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>  writes:
>>> Sometimes I want to make a comment in the middle of a line, not at the
>>> end, but whenever I hit M-;, prefix or not, comment-dwim insists on
>>> putting it at the end of line, at least in html-helper mode.
>>> emacs-version "24.0.50.1".
>
> SM>  How would you tell Emacs that your intention is to make it in
> SM>  the middle?
>
> Excellent question. One would think adding a prefix argument to M-;
> would be good... but that probably already is taken... and wait, M-; is
> bound to different commands in different modes... Yuck. E.g., as I write
> this it is bound to comment-region.
>
>
>
>

Hi,

as per chance played with commenting a little bit:
do you may present a show-case, where such a feature makes sense?

See a lot of difficulties beside: does "in the middle" mean splitting 
words if existing there?

Andreas

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