Re: comment-dwim and uncommenting

[Stefan Monnier]

> > > When I use comment-dwim to comment and uncomment a region, the
> > > uncomment leaves one space that I don't want.
> > > For example the file hello.cpp:
> > > 
> > > Initial content
> > > 
> > > void main() {
> > >   int a=3;
> > >   printf("hello world");
> > >   a=a*2;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Called comment-dwim on the line printf...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > void main() {
> > >   int a=3;
> > > //   printf("hello world");
> > >   a=a*2;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Called comment-dwim on the line //   printf...
> > > 
> > > void main() {
> > >   int a=3;
> > >    printf("hello world");
> > >   a=a*2;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Now the printf... line has an extra space at the beginning.
> > > I would like to get the original (correctly indented) content.
> >  
> >  I can't reproduce it with `emacs -q --no-site-file ~/tmp/foo.cc'.
> >  Can you give us some more information ?
> >  
> >  
> >     Stefan
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> I tried it also with emacs -q --no-site-file and it worked for me.
> 
> However I found out, that I have the following statement in my .emacs:
> (setq comment-padding 0)
> 
> When use this, I get the behaviour I described above.

I still can't reproduce it with

   emacs -q --no-site-file \
         --eval '(setq comment-add 0)' \
         --eval '(transient-mark-mode 1)' \
         ~/tmp/foo.cc

I tried it with Emacs-21.3 and Emacs-CVS.


        Stefan