Main goal: making a smart "uncomment" function suitable for any mode.
(defun uncomment-mode-specific ()
(interactive)
(if (region-active-p)
(comment-region (region-beginning) (region-end) -1) ; so far so good
(if (= ";" (line-beginning-position)) ; here is the problem
(message "successful")
(message "unsuccessful"))
))
In the if
statement, I would like to check for the value of the first character of the line, and if it equals
the variable comment-start
(which would return ";
" in emacs lisp), goto beginning-of-line
and delete the character. Ideas?
EDIT: More clarification as requested in a comment below follows. I would like a function to do:
1) If a region is selected, remove the comments (here that uncomment-region or comment-dwim would work as pointed out by Patrick)
ELSE:
2) If the first character of the line at point is a comment character, remove the comment character.
ELSE:
3) Search current line for comment (excluding \%
or \;
, mode dependent), move up to comment and kill the line starting with the comment sign.
I could not see how you would want this to work differently. It could then be bound to one key to simply remove comments, depending on the mode, using comment-start
to identify the comment character.