Re: The current state of the comment-cache branch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nikolaus Rath <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 15:58:53 -0800
> 
> >> I would hope that Emacs is used not only to edit its own source code but
> >> also other code, for which these standards don't apply.
> >
> > It is, but how is that relevant to the issue at hand?  The issue at
> > hand is how does open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start affect C code
> > editing.  The intent of my reference to GNU standards was to point
> > out that having an opening brace in column zero is a very frequent
> > situation in the C sources of any GNU project, and therefore saying
> > this convention is not useful for C flies in the face of the reality
> > right under our feet.
> 
> What I meant is that setting open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start to t
> in general is not a good idea, because it does not work for all C
> files. So for this option to be useful, you'd have to do set it
> conditionally - which IMO restricts its usefulness a lot.

We have that option set to t for a long time, so the decision whether
to do it was already made, and any problems that could cause are
already with us.