Subject: Re: (forward-comment -1) sometimes fails (C Mode).

From: Alan Mackenzie <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:29:47 +0000

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:54:06PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> (i) emacs -Q
> (ii) C-x C-f /path/to/emacs/src/gnutls.h
> (iii) Place point at 730, i.e. immediately after the opening comment.
> (iv) M-: (forward-comment -1)

> Point doesn't move.  It ought to move to BOB.

The problem was caused by open-paren-in-column-0-is-defun-start and a
paren in column 0.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).