G'day Mark,

I don't know the command you are after but paredit provides the command paredit-reindent-defun which is bound to M-q when in paredit mode.

You can invoke this command once your comment becomes too long to fit on one line. For example:

(defun example ()
  ;; This is a really long comment designed to show how the function paredit-reindent-defun works.*
  (print "hello world"))

(defun example ()
  ;; This is a really long comment designed to show how the function
  ;; paredit-reindent-defun works.*
  (print "hello world"))

Mark

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Mark H. David <mhd@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.

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From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>

To: Discussion list for Common Lisp professionals <pro@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@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.

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