Re: emacs rendering comparisson between emacs23 and emacs26.3

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What we did, in those cases, was to remove the one major switch to turn
  > off those changes - 'open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start'.

Can you pleese explain what you mean?

What exactly was "removed"?  The variable
'open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start' seems to still exist, and its
default value seems to be t (my .emacs does not set it and it is t).


                                                                  With the
  > argument that people want to comment out larger regions of code by
  > simply putting comment delimiters at the beginning and end of that code.

You have not said concretely which practice this refers to, but the
feature of special meaning for open-paren in column zero affects Emacs
editing commands, not the meaning of the program when executed.

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