From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15006: 24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:30:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mwp0x6hn.fsf@blah.blah> <8738qsx3nb.fsf@blah.blah> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375410742 3446 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2013 02:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 02:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15006@debbugs.gnu.org To: Kevin Ryde Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 02 04:32:22 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 1V55AD-0004zc-Ij for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 04:32:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41027 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V55AC-00089t-RU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:32:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V55A2-00087r-E7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:32:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V559u-0007sd-TF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:41323) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V559u-0007sS-QJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V559u-0001nx-GV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15006 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15006-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15006.13754106686801 (code B ref 15006); Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15006) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Aug 2013 02:31:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35633 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V5592-0001ld-0F for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:19163) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V558z-0001ky-T8 for 15006@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:31:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rw3m/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFG4rw3m/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDpHqBXoMT X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="20400346" Original-Received: from 184-175-13-230.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([184.175.13.230]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 01 Aug 2013 22:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A894B63C70; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 22:30:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8738qsx3nb.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:50:00 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 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:76884 Archived-At: > Actually I see the cc-mode code uses it with a group. And js.el too > (perhaps copying cc-mode). Does it have some subtle effect of skipping > the /*, or is it outright wrong? It's wrong. But cc-mode likes to reinvent the wheel, so maybe it doesn't use much of that code anyway. >> Yes, I prefer to stay away from "whitepace syntax" for that reason and >> would recommend [ \t]* in its stead. > I suppose the intention is to pick up non-breaking spaces or whatever > other flavours of whitespace. Unlikely to arise in practice in > programming language stuff. Is there an obvious ill effect? You can get things like (re-search-forward comment-start-skip) and end up with (match-end 0) past the end of the matched comment (e.g. when matching "//\n"). Stefan