Just to be clear, I don't use *@comment*;I I do sometimes use *@c/@* to comment out lines and I assumed that the same restrictions would apply to them.
On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 8:51:53 AM UTC-4 Thomas Passin wrote: > On Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 5:41:51 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > - @comment, @delims, @encoding, @pagewidth and @tabwidth directives should > only appear *only *in @<file> nodes. > > > I strongly object to this one. I write files all the time that use @c and > @pagewidth directives even though they are not @files. Usually I expect to > execute them using CTRL-b. Sometimes they are text files that use > @pagewidth to help with readability. Sometimes I copy an @file to make > changes and disable the original version by turning it into an @@file. > > Sometimes I search for an old outline, maybe several years old, that has > these now-forbidden directives in the wrong places. I'm not going to > remember to check if the outline violates the new rules and then have to > figure out how to rescue everything. I will just be thinking about the one > @file I am interesting. If I make a change and save the outline, I don't > want all the other @files to suddenly change or become unwritable. > > Perhaps you could share the new requirements with us and we could have a > discussion about them. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/3d003b45-259f-4df2-b8c5-b9c1d95008e1n%40googlegroups.com.
