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Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation |
Date: |
27 Nov 2001 11:52:37 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1.50 |
> I'm working on getting awk-mode (derived from cc-mode) working again.
[ What do you mean by `again' ? When did it get worse ? ]
Are you working on the version that in the CVS repository ?
If not, you should.
> The sort of thing I'm trying to do is: (i) go back to end of previous
> line; (ii) check for a backslash line-continuation; (iii) Go back over
> any comment. Unfortunately, (foward-comment -1) doesn't work quite like
> I'd like it to for (iii) because it regards the /n as part of the
> comment, and so will only work when point is at the start of the next
> line. It's not possible to specify that comments extend from '#' up to
> (but not including) \n, which I think is a pity.
But since you know how it works, you can just do (forward-char 1) before
(forward-comment -1).
> awk is a syntactic jungle: '/' is sometimes a regexp delimiter (which
> will have string syntax), sometimes a division sign. That means I'll
> have to do the work to check that a '#' (comment start) is not within
> '/'s (when they are regexp brackets).
The version that's in the CVS repository has font-lock tricks to
(try to) take care of it.
Stefan
- forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/24
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Miles Bader, 2001/11/24
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/25
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/25
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/27
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/27
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/27
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Stefan Monnier, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Alan Mackenzie, 2001/11/29
- Re: forward-comment doesn't (quite) match its documentation, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/30