npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:I have tracked the issue down to scan_sexps_forward in syntax.cApplying this change which reverts part of [1] seems to fix the issue:
Alan, can you explain what the idea behind that change was? I think it might correspond to this part of the commit message: Reformulate code at the top of the main loop correctly to recognize comment openers when starting in the middle of one. [1]: 9dcf5998935c Sun Mar 20 13:19:48 2016 +0000 "Amend parse-partial-sexp correctly to handle two character comment delimiters"