GNU bug report logs - #14376
24.3; comment-search-forward in SQL-mode raises an error

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 20:06:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Merged with 14655

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 14376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	"'Andreas Röhler'" <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 14376 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#14376: 24.3;
	comment-search-forward in SQL-mode raises an error
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 13:55:22 -0700

> > Can't see it's docu mentioning such a need.
              ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> ;; Prior to calling any `comment-*' function, you should ensure that
> ;; `comment-normalize-vars' is first called to set up the appropriate
> ;; variables; except for the `comment-*' commands, which call
> ;; `comment-normalize-vars' automatically as a subroutine.

FWIW, a comment in the source code is hardly documentation for the functions
concerned.  Doc strings...

See also bug #12583...  This will probably keep coming up until there is some
mention of it in the actual doc.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 343 days ago.

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