GNU bug report logs - #15006
24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>

Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 00:50:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 15006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Subject: bug#15006: 24.3; emacs manual comment-start-skip example grouping
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 16:08:18 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> I suppose the intention is to pick up non-breaking spaces or whatever
>> other flavours of whitespace.  Unlikely to arise in practice in
>> programming language stuff.  Is there an obvious ill effect?
>
> You can get things like (re-search-forward comment-start-skip) and end
> up with (match-end 0) past the end of the matched comment (e.g. when
> matching "//\n").

I've now updated the example in the manual (as well as rearranged the
\\| to match the order of the description of the regexp) in Emacs 28.

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