From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Andrew M. Scott" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: (setq blink-matching-paren-dont-ignore-comments nil) ignored? Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:54:51 -0700 Message-ID: <17393.57643.99565.332674@chlr5836.ch.intel.com> References: <200602071909.k17J95s5029362@chlr5836.ch.intel.com> Reply-To: "Andrew M. Scott" NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139943892 20331 80.91.229.2 (14 Feb 2006 19:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Andrew M. Scott" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 14 20:04:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F95Te-0004Fu-LQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:04:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F95Td-00067R-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F90kc-0004QE-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:01:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F90gL-0003IG-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:57:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F90eC-0002lY-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:55:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [143.182.124.5] (helo=petasus.ch.intel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F90iZ-0003AE-If; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:59:48 -0500 Original-Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.201.200]) by petasus.ch.intel.com (8.12.9-20030918-01/8.12.10/d: small-solo.mc,v 1.2 2004/09/17 18:05:04 root Exp $) with ESMTP id k1EDuhJb030165; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:56:43 GMT Original-Received: from chlr5836.ch.intel.com (chlr5836.ch.intel.com [10.2.120.162]) by sedona.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/d:) with ESMTP id k1EDspBK013460; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:54:51 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: amscott1@sedona.ch.intel.com Original-Received: from chlr5836.ch.intel.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chlr5836.ch.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/MailSET/client) with ESMTP id k1EDspjM016304; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:54:51 -0700 Original-Received: (from amscott1@localhost) by chlr5836.ch.intel.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/MailSET/Submit) id k1EDspbk016301; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:54:51 -0700 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50526 Archived-At: >>>>> "Richard" == Richard M Stallman writes: Richard> (setq debug-on-error t) ; ((setq debug-on-error nil)) Richard> The parentheses will blink-match all the close-parens Richard> in the comment. Richard> The effect of the feature is to ignore previous parens Richard> that are in comments. Richard> I will clarify the documentation. Richard, Unfortunately, even after reading the updated docstring several times and experimenting, I still can't visualize what blink-matching-paren-dont-ignore-comments is supposed to do. I also looked for an example in (Info-find-node "emacs" "Matching") but there is no mention of this variable there, either. M-x describe-variable blink-matching-paren-dont-ignore-comments: blink-matching-paren-dont-ignore-comments is a variable defined in `simple.el'. Its value is t Documentation: *nil means `blink-matching-paren' ignores comments. More precisely, when looking for the matching parenthesis, it skips the contents of comments that end before point. Puzzled, Andy Scott