Re: comment-dwim has no behavior to comment out the current line without a region

[Will Farrington]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > The proposed diff adds the following additional behavior:
>
> > If the point is at `line-beginning-position' (and the region is  
> > inactive),
> > call `comment-region'
> >  on the whole line (unless the line consists of comments, in which
> >  case it calls `uncomment-region').
>
> Sadly, BOL is a very common starting point to perform comment-indent,
> which is what M-; does currently (and has done for ages) instead of
> commenting out a region.
>
> So I don't think this new behavior is compatible with the current  
> use of
> M-;.

Generally speaking, what makes BOL a "common starting point" to perform
comment-indent more-so than any other part of the line?

Additionally, is not BOL semantically the clearest place to run  
comment-dwim
and expect it to comment out a given line rather than having it run
comment-indent?