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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: outrageous comment syntax
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 22:50:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d-KdnSuZPJefFPTenZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d@rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130888214.707028.123130@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

rgb wrote:
> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>>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 :-(
> 
> 
> When you san "cannot be" I assume you mean that use of shy groups
> (?: ...) is insufficient to your needs?
> 

I didn't know Emacs had them.  Thanks for pointing them out to me.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.12863.1130387573.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-01  4:29 ` outrageous comment syntax Stefan Monnier
2005-11-01 23:36 ` rgb
2005-11-03  3:50   ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2005-11-03 16:07   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-10-27  4:21 Ian Zimmerman

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