[ESS-bugs] Alt+; pressed twice does not uncomment the block in SAS mode

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "RoSp" == Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
>>>>>     on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:28:52 -0600 writes:

    RoSp> Martin Maechler wrote:
    >> I agree entirely with Adrian and Rich that this is a buglet
    >> in SAS mode -- sorry, Rodney.
    >> 
    >> Just because - as I understand you - Xemacs (again) does
    >> something unreasonable, that does not mean that  M-;  shouldn't
    >> behave in SAS mode as it does in all (or many many at least)
    >> other "programming" modes I know and use.
    >> 
    >> Martin
    >> 
    RoSp> Hi Martin:

    RoSp> I think you are mischaracterizing my remarks.  
    RoSp> comment-dwim is a GNU Emacs animal.  

aah, I see.
Please apologize!
    RoSp> XEmacs has a variant, but it doesn't seem to
    RoSp> work.  Of course, M-; not working is another problem, although, I'm
    RoSp> hindered by the first.  However, I was able to get it to work with the
    RoSp> following settings, but I don't really understand what's going on:

    RoSp> (defvar SAS-editing-alist ...
    RoSp> (comment-start                . "** ")
    RoSp> (comment-start-skip           . "[*][*] ")
    RoSp> (comment-end                  . " **;")
    RoSp> (comment-end-skip             . " [*][*];")

good (you could fix it; even w/o understanding ;-)

    RoSp> Happy Holidays,

to you too!
Martin