* lisp/vc/add-log.el (change-log-mode): Bind comment-start to nil.
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1 ;;; english.el --- support for English
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12 ;; Keywords: multibyte character, character set, syntax, category
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29 ;;; Commentary:
31 ;; We need nothing special to support English on Emacs. Selecting
32 ;; English as a language environment is one of the ways to reset
33 ;; various multilingual environment to the original setting.
35 ;;; Code:
37 (set-language-info-alist
38 "English" '((tutorial . "TUTORIAL")
39 (charset ascii)
40 (sample-text . "Hello!, Hi!, How are you?")
41 (documentation . "\
42 Nothing special is needed to handle English.")
45 ;; Mostly because we can now...
46 (define-coding-system 'ebcdic-us
47 "US version of EBCDIC"
48 :coding-type 'charset
49 :charset-list '(ebcdic-us)
50 :mnemonic ?*)
52 (define-coding-system 'ebcdic-uk
53 "UK version of EBCDIC"
54 :coding-type 'charset
55 :charset-list '(ebcdic-uk)
56 :mnemonic ?*)
58 (define-coding-system 'ibm1047
59 "A version of EBCDIC used in OS/390 Unix" ; says Groff
60 :coding-type 'charset
61 :charset-list '(ibm1047)
62 :mnemonic ?*)
63 (define-coding-system-alias 'cp1047 'ibm1047)
65 ;; Make "ASCII" an alias of "English" language environment.
66 (set-language-info-alist
67 "ASCII" (cdr (assoc "English" language-info-alist)))
69 ;;; english.el ends here