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[PATCH]: Fix (forward-comment 1) when end delimiter is escaped.

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Message #117 received at 43558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
Cc: 43558 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#43558: [PATCH]: Fix (forward-comment 1) when end delimiter
 is escaped.
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:17:12 +0200

Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de> writes:

> I think the bug should stay open, though.  CC Mode still doesn't handle
> multi-line comments absolutely correctly, and these could surely be
> fixed, like Stefan said, by using syntax-table text properties somehow.

Just to add a test case for this bug -- put this into a C file:

/*
  \*/
a */

cc-mode will highlight that as one comment (i.e., the "a" will be
coloured with the comment face), but the file won't compile, since the
comment ended at line two.  (This is in Emacs 29.)

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