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: Leo Liu <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 14303 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:25 +0800

On 2013-05-17 21:28 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I don't understand when that can happen (when inside a string (nth
> 8 ppss) is also non-nil).

I have

(defvar octave-comment-start-skip "\\(^\\|\\S<\\)\\(?:%!\\|\\s<+\\)\\s-*"
  "Octave-specific `comment-start-skip' (which see).")

and this could find "#abc" as comment start where BEG is outside of
strings and comments but END is in a string.

Maybe this is due to setting octave-comment-start-skip incorrectly.

I looked at comment-normalize-vars and see it uses:

  \\(\\(^\\|[^\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\)

as anchor but I don't understand fully.

Leo
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