GNU bug report logs - #10033
24.0.91; Uncommenting fails in Autoconf mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.91

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 10033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 10033 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10033: 24.0.91; Uncommenting fails in Autoconf mode
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:29:08 +0800

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> 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.

Yet syntax-propertize-function for Autoconf uses

  (set (make-local-variable 'syntax-propertize-function)
       (syntax-propertize-rules ("\\<dnl\\>" (0 "<"))))

which does work for matching only occurrences of `dnl' as separate
tokens.
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