From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: outrageous comment syntax
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 23:29:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzkp2drb.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12863.1130387573.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> comment-start-skip's value is
> "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\);+ *"
> Local in buffer simple-haskell.el; global value is nil
> Documentation:
> *Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.
> If there are any \(...\) pairs, the comment delimiter text is held to begin
> at the place matched by the close of the first pair.
> However, I have a language with two comment syntaxes, one of which
> depends on leading context and the other doesn't. How in the world can
> I set this variable properly? The context must be within the first
> group, and it cannot be :-(
I guess you can't. Unless of course some concrete detail makes it possible,
but since you haven't provided any...
If you indeed can't, report it with M-x report-emacs-bug, of course,
Stefan
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2005-11-01 4:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-11-01 23:36 ` outrageous comment syntax rgb
2005-11-03 3:50 ` Ian Zimmerman
2005-11-03 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-27 4:21 Ian Zimmerman
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