From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Alan McKenzie <MAILER-DAEMON@mail.muc.de>
Cc: 24172@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of nil mean?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:18:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pnlt4m7j.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190728092038.GC5072@ACM> (Alan McKenzie's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:20:38 +0000")
Alan McKenzie <MAILER-DAEMON@mail.muc.de> writes:
> All in all, this variable seems not to be a good idea. It is not
> tested consistently by the syntax routines (see above), must be set
> explicitly to t by any major mode with comments, the nil value is
> rarely used, and it is not clear whether this nil value is actually
> ever useful.
My question mainly arised from pondering whether this variable could be
useful for el-search, a package for searching Elisp code (with
patterns). It could be of minor use if it allowed to search commented
code. But I can also implement this in other ways. Apart from that, I
have no use cases, so I wrote the bug report only because of the unclear
documentation.
But the variable seems to be used. I have 75 matches in my load-path.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-06 23:28 bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of nil mean? Michael Heerdegen
2019-07-27 15:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-23 17:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-24 13:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 9:20 ` Alan McKenzie
2019-07-29 2:18 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
[not found] <20190728082012.19960.qmail@mail.muc.de>
2019-07-28 10:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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