Re: Different behaviour while debugging?

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> but inside the 'cond function in the while loop, the out-commented lines
>> ("comline") are not recognized when run normally
>
> My crystal ball is very cloudy but it seems like it's trying to tell me
> that single-stepping via edebug causes the file's content to be
> displayed before you run the code, and displaying this content causes it
> to be font-locked, which ends up adding some syntax-table properties
> which make those comments recognized as such.

that sounds quite reasonable to me, thank you, might 'comment-start',
'comment-end' and 'comment-padding' be among such syntax-table
properties? 

it works as expected with emacs lisp, picolisp and latex, but not in
html-mode (only mode among these that uses 'comment-start' *and*
'comment-end'), so maybe 'comment-end' is involved in the problem.

Is this a mistake of my program not to display the content before
running the code? With which elisp-trickery could I always enforce to
display the content first?

Or is this a problem with Emacs, and my program should not care about
these things? 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten