[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el,v

[Miles Bader]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Miles Bader <miles>     08/02/24 10:09:07

Index: lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el,v
retrieving revision 1.132
retrieving revision 1.133
diff -u -b -r1.132 -r1.133
--- lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el 1 Feb 2008 16:01:30 -0000       1.132
+++ lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el 24 Feb 2008 10:08:49 -0000      1.133
@@ -465,8 +465,12 @@
          sgml-transformation-function))
   ;; This will allow existing comments within declarations to be
   ;; recognized.
-  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) "\\(?:<!\\)?--[ \t]*")
-  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-end-skip) "[ \t]*--\\([ \t\n]*>\\)?")
+  ;; I can't find a clear description of SGML/XML comments, but it seems that
+  ;; the only reliable ones are <!-- ... --> although it's not clear what
+  ;; "..." can contain.  It used to accept -- ... -- as well, but that was
+  ;; apparently a mistake.
+  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip) "<!--[ \t]*")
+  (set (make-local-variable 'comment-end-skip) "[ \t]*--[ \t\n]*>")
   ;; This definition has an HTML leaning but probably fits well for other 
modes.
   (setq imenu-generic-expression
        `((nil