Subject: bug#3900: fill-comment-paragraph fails (e.g.) in perl-mode POD

From: Alan J Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:22:29 +0000

Bob Rogers <[email-masked]> writes:

>    To reproduce (in trunk or 23.0.96):
>
>    1.  Stuff the following six lines of "code" (two of them blank) into
> the "foo.pl" file:
>
> =head1 Testing
>
> This is a test case line with lots of stupid text.
> This is a test case line with a C<#> and lots of stupid text.
>
> =cut
>
>    2.  "emacs -Q foo.pl"
>
>    3.  Move the cursor to any point in the fourth line (the one with
> "C<#>") and type "M-q".  This will produce the following user-unfriendly
> error:
>
> 	Search failed: "\\(^\\|\\s-\\);?#+ *"

Hi, Sorry it's taken so long to respond to your bug report.

I can't reproduce this in either Emacs 24.5 or Emacs 25. Can you confirm
whether you're still seeing this behaviour in a recent version of Emacs?
-- 
Alan Third