Subject: Re: bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 18:53:11 +0200

Am 22.05.2013 17:58, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
>> May you point me at a use-case, where comment-start-skip as regexp is needed?
>> I.e. a case where comment-start as string wouldn't do it.
>
> E.g. in C++, comment-start is typically "//" which won't find the
> beginning of a /*...*/ comment.
>
>
>          Stefan
>

Okay, see. Thanks.

With different ways to start a comment, the regexp seems inevitable.
However, emacs lisp and related should not need it.

Given it's not defined if not needed, the backward-search could speed up in this cases.

Andreas