From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15006: 24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:48:36 +1000 Message-ID: <87mwp0x6hn.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375406166 23327 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 01:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:16:06 +0000 (UTC) To: 15006@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 03:16:04 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V53yM-0001aj-RD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 03:16:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59355 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53yM-0006fa-6f for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53y8-0006fH-LM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53ZF-0003Ux-Bo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41202) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53ZE-0003R7-9C for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:50:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V53ZC-00057q-SX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:50:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Kevin Ryde Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:50:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 15006 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.137540458219645 (code B ref -1); Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:50:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Aug 2013 00:49:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35518 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V53Yr-00056n-KI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57787) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V53Yo-00056F-92 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53YZ-0002q5-D3 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:56512) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53YZ-0002q1-AY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53YQ-0003U6-VA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53YI-0002kq-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout2-12.pacific.net.au ([125.255.80.139]:46330 helo=mailout4-syd3.pacific.net.au) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V53YI-0002k9-4q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:49:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy4-syd3.pacific.net.au (mailproxy4-syd3.pacific.net.au [61.8.2.162]) by mailout4-syd3.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C5C470D1A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:49:00 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from blah.blah (unknown [203.26.175.75]) by mailproxy4-syd3.pacific.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27982C025 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:48:59 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by blah.blah with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V53Xo-0005rB-Bg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:48:36 +1000 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:76883 Archived-At: In the emacs manual info node "(emacs)Options for Comments" an example comment-start-skip is given "\\(//+\\|/\\*+\\)\\s *" If I understand the comment-start-skip docstring correctly a \(..\) group is for extra distinguishing text preceding the comment. Should that example be a shy group, or perhaps expanded out to ungroup like vera-mode.el has? "/\\*+ *\\|//+ *" I also wondered whether the whitespace "\\s *" in the example was a little too loose since it matches \n and leading whitespace of the next line too. Does that matter to anything? In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2013-05-29 on blah.blah, modified by Debian System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) Configured using: `configure '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' '--without-gconf' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-znocombreloc' 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'' Important settings: value of $LANG: en_AU locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t