From: no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Subject: Re: Apparent problem with looking-at?
Date: 18 Jun 2002 11:42:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5xfzzkrkif.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9E217BAD4019CE4095869023168429A9CCF918@vulture.corp.resmed.org
PeterM@resmed.com.au (Peter Milliken) writes:
> Hi, I have some elisp that has been unchanged for several major versions of
> EMacs now - it nolonger works in version 21.2.1.
Your code is seriously flawed, so if it worked with older emacs versions,
they must have been buggy too :-)
Notice that looking-at arg is a REGEXP, not a STRING.
So "/*" matches the empty string (zero or more /'es).
And "/* " matches zero or more /'es followed by a space.
So it is obvious that "/*" will match "/*..."
(as it starts with one slash),
while "/* " does not match "/*..."
(as there is a * and not a space following the /).
According to its doc string, the comment-start variable is a STRING
for INSERTING the comment start. It cannot be used as a regexp
directly. To do that, use
(looking-at (regexp-quote comment-start))
>
> I am currently running Emacs 21.2.1 built using cygwin tools on a NT
> platform. The situation is that I (normally) comment out lines in code files
> I am working on and then wish to remove the comments later on i.e.
>
> /* <some text> */
>
> Note that the comment start (.c file) is located at the beginning of line.
> The elisp code snippet looks like this:
>
> (beginning-of-line)
> (if (looking-at comment-start)
>
> The (looking-at comment-start) returns nil. I don't believe it should return
> nil and never has in previous versions of Emacs. If I alter the code snippet
> to (looking-at "/*") then it works (note the absence of the space after the
> '*'). Also, if I place a space character at the start of the line i.e.
>
> /* <some text> */
>
> and run the original code (testing for comment-start with point at the BOL)
> then the test returns t.
>
> Thanks
> Peter
>
> Peter Milliken
> Software Engineer
> ResMed
> Phone: +61 2 9886-5059
>
--
Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 23:39 Apparent problem with looking-at? Peter Milliken
2002-06-18 9:42 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2002-06-19 2:24 ` Richard Stallman
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2002-06-19 5:17 Peter Milliken
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