Re: Comment lines and matching parentheses

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

dnquark <dnquark@gmail.com> wrote:
> What determines whether or not parentheses that are part of comments
> are included when performing paren matching?..  For instance, in C
> mode, both
>  // (
>  // )
> and
>  foo //(
>  bar //)
> are reported as mismatched parentheses. Similar behavior is observed
> in lisp mode.

> Is there a way to make emacs ignore all parentheses that are parts of
> comments?..  This behavior sometimes breaks hs-minor-mode's ability to
> fold code in buffers.

No, there isn't.  A paren in a comment will only balance a matching one
in the same comment.  If you're able and willing to change the source
code, you could rewrite the first example as:
  /* (
     ) */
.

But it sounds more like there's a bug in hs-minor-mode, which you might
"want" to report.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).