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26.1; Optionally not font-lock newline char when `comment-end' = ""

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, 33913 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33913: 26.1; Optionally not font-lock newline char when `comment-end' = ""
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:46:55 +0100

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> Please consider letting users easily (e.g. user option) not highlight a
> newline character when it ends a comment, such as in Lisp.
>
> The effect should be to highlight only the chars of the line, starting
> with `comment-start', up to but not including the newline char.

For my private solution to this problem look at the attached file.

> (I never would have noticed how annoying the default behavior is if
> I hadn't tried putting a background color on comments, as the OP
> did.  I don't even think it should be the default behavior to
> highlight the newline char.)

Fully agreed.

martin

[font-lock-fontify-syntactically-region.el (application/emacs-lisp, attachment)]

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