From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: 15006@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15006: 24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:34:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvc3oev09.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwp0x6hn.fsf@blah.blah> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:48:36 +1000")
> If I understand the comment-start-skip docstring correctly a \(..\)
> group is for extra distinguishing text preceding the comment. Should
> that example be a shy group,
Indeed, thank you.
> I also wondered whether the whitespace "\\s *" in the example was a
> little too loose since it matches \n and leading whitespace of the next
> line too. Does that matter to anything?
Yes, I prefer to stay away from "whitepace syntax" for that reason and
would recommend [ \t]* in its stead.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 0:48 bug#15006: 24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping Kevin Ryde
2013-08-02 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-08-02 1:50 ` Kevin Ryde
2013-08-02 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-21 14:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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