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October 18, 2015 18:10
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one function with a few lines addded to keep the structure of lisp forms when commenting a form inside another form
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(defun comment-sexp--raw () | |
"Comment the sexp at point or ahead of point." | |
(pcase (or (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp) | |
(save-excursion | |
(skip-chars-forward "\r\n[:blank:]") | |
(bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp))) | |
(`(,l . ,r) | |
(goto-char r) | |
(skip-chars-forward "\r\n[:blank:]") | |
(save-excursion | |
;; comment internal forms without breaking the structure | |
(if (looking-at " *\)") ;;[:blank:] didn't work here(?) | |
(progn | |
(goto-char r) | |
(newline-and-indent))) | |
(comment-region l r)) | |
(skip-chars-forward "\r\n[:blank:]")))) |
Hey there. I'm having a look at this now.
Could you exemplify a case where the previous code didn't work?
What I mean is: comment-region
is usually supposed to take care of inserting newlines and ensuring the code remains valid.
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I added lines 11-15. The uncommenting part already works! yeah! ( As long as you are in the right position - you have to be "looking-at" a comment character)
This way the structure of the surrounding forms is still valid.
for example:
@Malabarba what do you think about incorporating these few lines?