Subject: Re: bug#16971: 24.3.50; comment-beginning behaves differently in current newcomment.el, leads to error in comment-indent-new-line
From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
To: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Frank Ruben <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 08:52:14 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Version: 24.4

Applied (in 116778), but also see 116779.

I've missed some modes that do the same thing, notably lisp-mode and 
perl-mode. Instead of changing them, added a compatibility piece that 
makes those kind of comment-start-skip values work again, too.

Of course, if a mode somewhere checks multiple chars before the 
beginning of a comment, it will still fail.