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Re: How to change 'comment-region' behaviour globally?


From: Thorsten Jolitz
Subject: Re: How to change 'comment-region' behaviour globally?
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:38:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> if I want to temporarilly set it to another value in a program, do I
>> have to check first if its a global value or a buffer-local value that
>> is set for the buffer, or is this immaterial, i.e. whenever I call setq
>> on 'comment-style', it will apply to the version that is active in the
>> buffer?
>
> You can just do
>
>   (let ((comment-style 'plain))
>     (comment-region ...))

yes, much better than using 'setq'. Thanks for the tip. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




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