Re: [ELPA] New package: arm-mode

[Charles Jackson]

Here is the bug number: bug#37099

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Tuesday, August 20, 2019 3:55 AM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> > In Arm "@" is equivilent to ";" in lisp, and "/* */" is equivilent to ";;" 
> > in lisp.
> > I don't understand how comment-dwim knows to put ";;" when on an empty line
> > and only ";" for in-line comments but I'm looking for a similar
> > functionality. This how I got it to work for me.
>
> Oh, you mean you want comment-dwim to use @-comments for "end of line
> comments", but to use /.../-comments for whole-line comments?
>
> The ;-vs-;; difference is obtained via the `comment-add` variable, but
> indeed it doesn't cover your use case.
>
> Could you `M-x report-emacs-bug` to request this as a new feature?
> [ And please send me the resulting bug-number. ]
>
> Stefan
>
> > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > On Monday, August 19, 2019 3:53 PM, Stefan Monnier address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > > Thank you for the code review Stefan. I have implemented most of the
> > > > fixed you suggested. Following is what I have a few questions about.
> > > > I need that M-; key binding because a /* */ style comment should be
> > > > inserted if on an empty line. To my understanding comment-dwim would
> > > > only insert @ style comments.
> > >
> > > Hmm... comment-dwim doesn't care, AFAIK, it just inserts whatever you
> > > have set for comment-start and comment-end, so it can definitely insert
> > > /.../. But I suspect you know that, so most likely I'm
> > > misunderstanding something.
> > >
> > > > The reason that (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" st) is there is actually 
> > > > define
> > > > a help define what a word is for the \< and \> regexp. If it is left out
> > > > then registers names or anything else used in labels will be 
> > > > highlighted in
> > > > their own color.
> > >
> > > Ah, I see. You can probably solve this by using \< and \> which match
> > > symbol-boundaries instead of word-boundaries.
> > > Stefan