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

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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm <at> muc.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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 18:52:37 +0000

Hello, Lars.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 13:17:12 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> 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.)

I'll look at this in the coming days, and hopefully fix it.

> -- 
> (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
>    bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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