Subject: Re: bug#10033: 24.0.91; Uncommenting fails in Autoconf mode

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:40:16 +0100

Chong Yidong <[email-masked]> writes:

> This is because the value of comment-start-skip in Autoconf mode is
>
>    "\\(?:\\<dnl\\|#\\) +"
>
> The \< is intended to avoid matching a "dnl" that is part of a word.

dnl isn't a word, it is a comment, so \< cannot match it.

Andreas.

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