From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Checking if cursor is inside a comment Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2b227bd6-aceb-4298-8c25-ddaa25f9dcc1@j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216366893 18115 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 07:41:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:41:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 18 09:42:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJkbV-0005tX-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:42:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJkad-0004pn-Au for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:41:19 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.170.250.228 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216365038 24781 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2008 07:10:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:10:38 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j1g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.170.250.228; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160351 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55699 Archived-At: Is there a general or mode-specific (c-mode for my application) way of checking whether the cursor is currently placed inside a comment or not? What is the most clever way of doing this? Should I use looking- at(), use or perhaps extend thing-at-point(), or use search-forward/ backward() or is there some other state or function that should be used for this specific case. I believe c-mode has some variables and functions for accessing the result of its parsing, for example c- syntactic-information-on-region(). My main reason for asking is that I have a lot of clever code helpers especially for c-mode that I don't want to be enable inside comments. Thanks in advance, Nordl=F6w