From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckmann@gmx.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org,
John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>,
mail@vasilij.de, PSPP Development Mailing List <pspp-dev@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 10:17:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA_G9+i91Fz7-xhepgEwjkvfQAJGPEqJDDSG-1MkjQRow5+R8A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo8ouowff.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:59 AM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > COMMENT at the start of a line (optionally preceded by whitespace) begins a comment.
> > * at the start of a line (optionally preceded by whitespace) begins a comment.
> > In general, comments are terminated by the end of a line.
>
> That would mean that the doc needs to be fixed, since it says at
> https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/COMMENT.html:
>
> COMMENT can extend over any number of lines. Don’t forget to terminate
> it with a dot or a blank line.
>
> I don't fully understand what `segmenter_parse_comment_1__` does in
> `src/language/lexer/segment.c` but it seems to suggest that the doc is
> right, yet the `t-test.sps` file strongly suggests that the reality
> is different.
>
> Could someone enlighten me as to the actual syntax of comments for .sps
> files (maybe it's not defined in `src/language/lexer/segment.c` but in
> some other file)?
I think that my parallel contribution to the thread here explains this,
but if not then please do ask for clarification.
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2020-06-30 21:55 ` Fwd: [ELPA] New package: pspp-mode.el for PSPP/SPSS syntax highlighting Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-04 9:20 ` John Darrington
2020-07-04 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-04 15:15 ` John Darrington
2020-07-04 22:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 6:06 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 14:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 17:17 ` Ben Pfaff [this message]
2020-07-05 17:16 ` Ben Pfaff
2020-07-05 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-07-05 22:17 ` Ben Pfaff
2020-07-05 9:44 ` Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-05 11:18 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 16:51 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-05 17:14 ` Friedrich Beckmann
2020-07-05 18:35 ` John Darrington
2020-07-05 18:50 ` tomas
2020-07-05 20:20 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06 5:53 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-06 6:01 ` Sean Whitton
2020-07-06 6:38 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-07-07 4:51 ` Sean Whitton
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