From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 17+gnus and comments
Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 14:45:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vac314en.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7tfp42r.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>> Right, and `message-yank-prefix' (which gets used as the value of
>> `comment-start') has a space, meaning those lines aren't recognized as
>> comments.
>
>> Maybe try setting `message-yank-empty-prefix' to "> "? For your own
>> citations, anyway, that ought to ensure the space is there. I don't know
>> about other people's citations, though...
>
> Thanks but I found the problem. I am using a quite old package from Noah
> Friedman called comment.el which uses a function comment-out-region. For
> this function to work he has set a variable comment-mode-alist via
> defvar, and it the latest emacs version this variable is not set. I will
> ask him (I think he still active) and in emacs-devel.
Well, I saw the same behavior here and I don't have that library
installed, so it might be more than that...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-04 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-03 13:09 Uwe Brauer
2018-05-03 16:40 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-04 20:18 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-05-04 21:45 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2018-05-05 9:43 ` Uwe Brauer
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