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11.89.5; Parse failure if long comment at head of file

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From: Fran Burstall <f.e.burstall <at> bath.ac.uk>
To: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "24668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <24668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#24668: 11.89.5; Parse failure if long comment at head of file
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:18:59 +0100

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Hi Mosè,

Here is such an example.

I would expect auctex to parse this and write a style file to ./auto but,
for me, it does not unless I remove the long comment at the start of the
file.

Best,

---Fran


On 12 October 2016 at 00:23, Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Fran,
>
> 2016-10-11 17:42 GMT+02:00 Fran Burstall <feb <at> maths.bath.ac.uk>:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > My LaTeX file starts with a long (59 line) comment
> > containing header information.
> >
> > I noticed that the file was not being parsed and no style
> > file written to ./auto or read from there.
> >
> > If I remove the header and do C-c C-n, parsing occurs as I
> > would expect.
> >
> > If I put the \documentstyle line in line 1 of the file and
> > then the header, parsing also fails.
> >
> > I suspect this must be a regression caused by a recent
> > change as I have not noticed this behaviour before.
>
> Could you please show us minimal (non-)working examples of the
> different cases you described?  I was not able to reproduce your
> problem, but I'm not sure I got what you mean.
>
> Bye,
> Mosè
>

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