From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Error with fill-paragraph in my own major mode Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:57:24 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: References: <85y7a7l0z3.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> <85hcgutmqc.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> <858x2656nc.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201812054 19548 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2008 20:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 31 21:41:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JKgDX-0002Sv-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:41:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JKgD6-0003zu-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-Free-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bids2TJX8vK89s3WIa23Ym7OYoA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: 0970747a228256b5d3adc17700 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155765 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51141 Archived-At: > Thanks for your explanations. I think one would have to look at all > the possible cases to fully get this. Nobody has time for that: the set of possible cases is unbounded. > As a (somewhat funny) sidenote: I know a special in-house language, > for which I also wrote a major mode back then) which uses # as the > comment character. But only, and this is the funny part, if it does > not appear within the arguments of a command, where they are used > excessively. Actually, sh comments are pretty much like that: % echo he#lo #world he#lo % -- Stefan