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Johan Bockgård | 1 Mar 2004 01:57

Re: A couple rudimentary elisp questions

exits funnel <exitsfunnel <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> 1) Is there no way to specify multi-line comments? I read the
> 'comments' section in the 'Emacs Lisp Reference Manual' and it seems
> to indicate not, but it seems kind of hard to believe.

Why? While Emacs Lisp does indeed not have multi-line comments, there
are commands in Emacs for commenting and uncommenting regions.

> I'm trying to write a custom c-style and it would be helpful if I
> could comment/uncomment large chunks of my .emacs file and reload it
> so I could try to figure out what's going on. If there really are no
> multi line comments is there any tricks for kludging it?

Reloading the entire file is the real kludge here. Reading this
section in the manual should be helpful:

(info "(emacs)Lisp Eval")

> 2) I see alot of lists of the form (foo . bar). What does the dot
> specify?

(info "(elisp)Dotted Pair Notation")

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Johan Bockgård

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exits funnel | 1 Mar 2004 02:09

Re: A couple rudimentary elisp questions

> Why? While Emacs Lisp does indeed not have
> multi-line comments, there
> are commands in Emacs for commenting and
> uncommenting regions.

Thanks.  I should have found these on my own.

> Reloading the entire file is the real kludge here.
> Reading this
> section in the manual should be helpful:
> 
> (info "(emacs)Lisp Eval")
> 
> > 2) I see alot of lists of the form (foo . bar).
> What does the dot
> > specify?
> 
> (info "(elisp)Dotted Pair Notation")

Thanks for both pointers. I will read them post haste
:)

-exits

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