emacs lisp mode, mailing list?

[Jeff Caldwell]

I'm not at an Emacs right now, but does Ctrl-j not do what you want?

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 6:51 PM Mark H. David <mhd at yv.org> wrote:

> OK, well I'm wondering if anyone remembers the keybinding M-RET (meta
> return), within a semi-colon (;) comment, which used to wonderfully both
> start a new line, but also continue the comment at the same indent level,
> same number of leading semi-colons, with a space after.  Example:
>
> You're here, and your cursor is where the * is:
>
>    (defun foo ()
>       ;; blah blah blah*
>
> and you type M-RET. Next thing that happens is the cursor is on the next
> line where the * is, and the lines then look like this:
>
>    (defun foo ()
>       ;; blah blah blah
>       ;; *
>
> What happened to that functionality?  I thought it was there for years,
> I'm pretty sure on the Lisp Machine and I think for years in regular Emacs
> in Lisp mode.  It got ingrained in my fingers, and I often still try it,
> but of course now all I get is: M-RET is undefined
>
> Thank you.
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com>
> To: Discussion list for Common Lisp professionals <pro at common-lisp.net>
> Subject: Re: emacs lisp mode, mailing list?
> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:35:04 +0200
>
>
>
> On 21 Jun 2018, at 17:49, Mark H. David <mhd at yv.org> wrote:
>
> Is there a mailing list to ask questions and make suggestions and talk
> about emacs lisp mode for pro Lispers? Would that be here perhaps?
>
>
> Yes, there’s no other place.
>
> --
> __Pascal J. Bourguignon__
>
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