Re: Different comment syntaxes in within the same buffer?

Basile Starynkevitch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2026-04-10 at 11:53 -0400, Stefan Monnier via Users list for
the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> > I would like to ask the Lispers here whether there is a good
> > solution
> > for having different comment syntaxes in the same buffer depending
> > on
> > the point's position. For more context, a lot of web templating
> > languages (e.g., Svelte, Astro) have multiple syntaxes in the same
> > file.


Look perhaps into Emacs support of literate programming like
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/

(I used it more than a dozen years ago, and IIRC found some emacs
support)

Regards
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