GNU bug report logs - #14303
24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.3

Done: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 14303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Subject: bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:04 -0400

>> Yes, same thing as with beg-of-defun discussed elsewhere.
>> 
>> + (while (and (not found) (re-search-backward comment-start-skip limit t))
>> +      (setq end (match-end 0))
>> +      (or (nth 8 (syntax-ppss)) (setq found t)))
>> 
>> This might find a comment-start inside a string.
>> 
>> Rely at (syntax-ppss)
>> 
>> if nt4 and nth8, goto char nth8

> There is possibility of ending up in a string.

I don't understand when that can happen (when inside a string (nth
8 ppss) is also non-nil).


        Stefan
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