From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of nil mean? 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Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:18:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20190728092038.GC5072@ACM> (Alan McKenzie's message of "Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:20:38 +0000") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:V7mGwAYikIWkCwTaoW2lfz7E02cmvBaci83JoJXOUtrQdlqjAaR fCT930M1LDiuaj6B9sBOP31ka3oQWMaErl2H/p809iWObH4LUvVaTwRzBljDb4zS9whVYDq dPcYhSq+VBWb1LiHt1TQc5fk0vqiEm4Hs8uQZknAeugcdCV2bMr7PpSKcWLmO2rTcIeCK0a nZFUbaVk3W6sFJS8IBUPQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:RTXHLA6DAaM=:bairGud7IG4T92osqBUIbU 9N78G3SIwpyKZicTvEnyJ2ruCo56RifFWqS0rE4cPBu3Yc3sdkuVZMKF90ARx2wO8EqL5szMQ dT0ntTYHFBk51nPzsiuc2wuprpvMVL2108LEyXMwDbpVBS1HFqDY3KBl5K8QsJvLxeh4871wS kfa5a/2JoYHiogWunNAR5DUugBFDhmsmY8gLh3uj9pCWHgv1c5TsKZ6yKV5UsnNErmyGyJ/iN QMEt4dq03iEn7mrtgk0nd1YMGdBSgBm/7XMTMKiDhdnDdAnnFc6WedIG2Phf41kFdvNbLCYjl zdgl3Wd03gpqOnhAZFMcSrv73s3JGqyUFB2RvqaleoiJbvtyhHpsyVIUs/zZ+KYr+069NE/yu 5IDhYdeQ/rPlHAO7AMLuBkgl5/RIbXGci4Os+SHZym6X5eVV+C8TwUEvBKPvm3P5Ijl6X5CH/ tXDi6S+bRbxsfBKnGarqTEvq/7qUdrVa0SAQ2NxXyhBdg3dN5bnDJBBeupweeJ7/T+6uDfLFO VP1hfgPkp3+gKVYweF4XcilIZVC8N2HqvO5zMDBEfiU5gDXlK9IqWwjyt8sm142WFtwYq97GQ IpZzxONIhWxf/x0RsrkMbsxxkavvk76Cf4czjQbd0mswY19uDPRQwlrWi61TpVCDwPwKJhwtY 5ORQPsOp+t8dqKkiFPHZAuFAngMXDZpyEjN4DzNdmyq1MOM0QuSxCqhh+FMdxx+N99IoR57nG 26cgoMQrrVFsw0wBcHZ5wLMds0+LoCsihnFcgwVCFlHpGBe8l1takK/xeP4cejtauZw/dxbh X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164001 Archived-At: Alan McKenzie 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.