GNU bug report logs - #34088
26.1; OPascal mode some comment delimiters use the wrong face

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tom Ient <tom <at> ient.me>

Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:59:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 26.1

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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Message #13 received at 34088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tom Ient <tom <at> ient.me>
Cc: 34088 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Simon South <ssouth <at> member.fsf.org>
Subject: Re: bug#34088: 26.1; OPascal mode some comment delimiters use the
 wrong face
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:52:19 +0200

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

> The two braces uses faces that look identical, but they are indeed
> different faces.  The following patch fixes the test case, but I don't
> really know Objective Pascal at all.  For reference, this is what
> pascal.el says about comments:
>
>   (setq-local comment-start "{")
>   (setq-local comment-start-skip "(\\*+ *\\|{ *")
>   (setq-local comment-end "}")
>
> I've added Simon the the CCs; perhaps he has some insight here.

There was no response within a few months, but the change seems to fix
the reported problem, so I've now pushed the change to Emacs 28.

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