Re: how to deal with comment in a new lang mode

[Andreas Politz]

Xah wrote:
> On Nov 1, 6:47 am, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Xah wrote:
> > ...
> > > (defun xlsl-uncomment-region (p1 p2)
> > >   "Remove “//” in the beginning of each line of selected text."
> > >   (interactive "r")
> > >   (let ((deactivate-mark nil))
> > >     (save-excursion
> > >       (goto-char p2)
> > >       (while (>= (point) p1)
> > >         (xlsl-uncomment-current-line)
> > >         (previous-line)
> > >         )
> > >       )
> > >     )
> > >   )
> > > ...
>
> > > PS is there a command to compact the ending parens?
>
> Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > C-M-% ) C-q C-j SPC + ) RET )) RET
>
> Rupert Swarbrick wrote:
> > Well, I tend to go to the last one and C-a C-\ <backspace>
> > repeatedly. Well in fact, it's usually
> >   C-x C-( C-a C-\ <backspace> C-x C-) C-x e e e e e .... e
>
> ugh! I could have counted the parens, delete, then type them faster
> than these methdos.
>
> kinda interesting that almost 3 decades of emacs+elisp its still like
> this.
>
> i suppose i or any could easily write up a command to compact ending
> parens ... i wonder why it's not really done. I guess its because most
> people type parens one by one (as opposed to pairs), so they never
> ends up with hanging parens like above in the first place.
>
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

I think your conclusion is true, but as for the proposition (people type
parens one by one), I think most people simply don't end up with this pattern
of parentheses when they code lisp. Where did the newline come from
anyway, especially since it is not desired ?

However, I would probablly use this baby :


,----[ C-h k M-^ ]
| M-^ runs the command delete-indentation
|   which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
| It is bound to M-^.
| (delete-indentation &optional ARG)
|
| Join this line to previous and fix up whitespace at join.
| If there is a fill prefix, delete it from the beginning of this line.
| With argument, join this line to following line.
`----


-ap