From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: rrt@sc3d.org
Cc: 5706@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5706: 23.1; Comments incorrectly detected in autoconf mode
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:12:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=wwFAcPxMjBUc0YDpeYbZ8NUAZP_UNa9ucKoBekbfB2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268321660.243500.25019@canta> (rrt@sc3d.org's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:20 -0000")
rrt@sc3d.org writes:
> A hash character does not always introduce a comment in autoconf code,
> but autoconf-mode always colors if as if it did. Unfortunately, I
> cannot really tell from the autoconf manual what the rules are. I
> suspect that # does not start a comment if it is inside [...] quotes,
> but I guess this should be checked.
(This bug was reported 10 years ago, but unfortunately never got a reply
at the time.)
Could you give an example of some autoconf code where you believe the
hash character is incorrectly identified as a comment?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 15:34 bug#5706: 23.1; Comments incorrectly detected in autoconf mode rrt
2020-11-19 3:12 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-19 7:37 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-11-19 14:51 ` Stefan Kangas
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