Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> >   	     (commark
>>> >   	      (comment-string-strip (buffer-substring comstart comin) nil t))
>>> >   	     (comment-re
>>> > ! 	      (if (string-match comment-start-skip (concat "\0" commark "a"))
>>> >   		  (concat "[ \t]*" (regexp-quote commark)
>>> >   			  ;; Make sure we only match comments that use
>>> >   			  ;; the exact same comment marker.
>>> 
>>> Please add a clear comment explaining the reason for this "\0".
>
>> I must admit that this patch goes much beyond my knowledge of elisp
>> hacking. Also, I cannot find anything in the elisp manual explaining
>> the meaning of "\0" in this context. If there is a general idea for
>> this, I'd much appreciate if it was documented in the elisp manual,
>> too. (Or did I look at the wrong spot?)
>
> There's nothing specific to elisp there, and the \0 is just some
> arbitrary char: a space would have probably worked just as well.

... but it would have needed some thinking to get rid of the
« probably » ;-)

I've installed a comment for that.  Thanks for your help Stefan!

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