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From: Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 14303@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 06:51:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1hai1kyoc.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7gixkac7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:37 -0400")

On 2013-05-17 21:26 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> BTW, a useful idiom for such loops is the "empty body" while loop.
>
>       (while (and (re-search-backward comment-start-skip limit t)
>                   (progn
>                     (setq end (match-end 0))
>                     (and comment-use-syntax (nth 8 (syntax-ppss))))))

Yes, I use this occasionally too. Since we need to know if a comment
start is found I don't use it here.

Leo





      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-17 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-29 13:27 bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward Leo Liu
2013-05-15 11:33 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-15 16:13   ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-16  4:02     ` Leo Liu
2013-05-16  7:12       ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-17 10:47         ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 11:14           ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-17 11:34             ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 12:39               ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-17 13:18                 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 13:28           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17 13:37             ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 14:27               ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-17 22:52                 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-18  5:23                   ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-21  1:55                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 10:58                       ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-22 15:58                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-22 16:53                           ` Andreas Röhler
2013-05-17 15:52               ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17 22:54                 ` Leo Liu
2013-05-16 13:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-16 15:50     ` Leo Liu
2013-05-16 17:38       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17  0:35         ` Leo Liu
2013-05-17 13:26           ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-17 22:51             ` Leo Liu [this message]

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