From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What is this syntax for in php-mode.el Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:16:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4628E75D.6030706@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177085840 10051 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 16:17:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:17:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 18:17:14 2007 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 1HevnL-0004BD-0e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:17:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HevsP-000556-H2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:22:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hevs9-00054z-8b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hevs7-00054l-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hevs7-00054h-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hevn2-0003fe-68 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:16:52 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62133 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hevn0-0000Cd-3I; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:16:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000735-0, 2007-04-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Hevn0-0000Cd-3I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Hevn0-0000Cd-3I 294da0680735752517f0ff1e64241c70 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:42904 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Please tell the author that he doesn't need this gymnastics. > Just set # to comment-starter in the syntax-table and be done with it. > Make sure it has the comment-style (a or b) corresponding to the one of \n > (presumably it's b, if I read the problem-comment above correctly): > > (modify-syntax-entry ?# "< b" php-mode-syntax-table) But as Ted pointed out before PHP has 3 comment styles, the two from C/C++ and then the shell comment style above. Is it really possible to handle this with the syntax table?