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26.0.50; parse-partial-sexp ignores comment-end

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: Matt Armstrong <marmstrong <at> google.com>
Cc: 24870 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24870: 26.0.50; parse-partial-sexp ignores comment-end
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 09:33:42 +0100

On 01.12.2016 00:02, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> Also, can you describe the visible symptom that caused you to begin
> looking at syntax-ppss and parse-partial-sexp?  That description may
> help me or others spot similarities with other reported bugs.
>
> (I must say that I am not an Emacs expert, and I do not usually reply to
> Emacs bugs.  I looked at a few bugs last night as a way to help
> maintainers triage the "easy" bugs.  It does not look like this bug is
> easy!)

It broke some code relying on results of parse-partial-sexp
This , resp. syntax-ppss, is an internally widely used function.

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