From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8659: 24.0.50; doc string of comment-end-skip Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:49:56 -0700 Message-ID: <0BCD0B03FE4C4CC298EFAF1FF810E140@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305157877 15876 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2011 23:51:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:51:17 +0000 (UTC) To: 8659@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 01:51:12 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QKJBM-0000Y2-07 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2011 01:51:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40035 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QKJBK-00055O-TK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 11 May 2011 18:49:59 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.37.175) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 11 May 2011 16:49:57 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcwQNiGnzqxTgdiYRaGhWku01zN7Cw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 X-Source-IP: rtcsinet21.oracle.com [66.248.204.29] X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090202.4DCB20AF.0028:SCFSTAT5015188,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 19:51:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:46402 Archived-At: comment-start-skip: "*Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body...." comment-end-skip: "Regexp to match the end of a comment plus everything up to its body." The latter seems wrong. End of a comment up to the comment's body? Is it "up to" that is wrong/odd ("back to"), or is the comment's body not the text that is commented out? comment-end-skip was added long after comment-start-skip. I wonder whether this is just the result of a lazy copy+paste? In any case, the text is unclear to me. In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-05-10 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/build/include'