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Re: comment-filling fixes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: comment-filling fixes |
Date: |
18 Mar 2004 11:38:02 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> I actually fixed this a couple days ago. My fix is similar to
>> yours.
> Actually, my fix was wrong/incomplete.
I can't guess what you're referring to, but I know that your code failed in
the case of
foo ;;; asdg
;; bar
The installed code gets this right.
>> The difference with yours is that it only uses syntax-ppss if the major
>> mode sets a specific variable. The reason for it is that in major modes
>> like tex-mode or perl-mode where the syntax-tables are not quite up to the
>> task, using syntax-ppss means that if the syntax functions get confused the
>> comment-related operations suddenly don't work at all any more.
> That seems backwards to me. Why penalize most modes?
Backward compatibility?
People haven't been whining very loud about the bug this new feature fixes,
so I think it's best to stay conservative than to risk introducing new bugs.
Stefan
- comment-filling fixes, Dave Love, 2004/03/06
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/10
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Dave Love, 2004/03/18
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Richard Stallman, 2004/03/27
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Dave Love, 2004/03/29
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Stefan Monnier, 2004/03/29
- Re: comment-filling fixes, Richard Stallman, 2004/03/30