Re: asm mode doesn't recognize gas comments...

[Andreas Politz]

Brendan Miller <catphive@catphive.net> writes:

> By default it seems that asm mode recognizes MASM style comments
> (starting with ;), but not gas style comments (starting with #). A
> little weird for a GNU program running on Linux...
>
> Anyway, according to asm modes docs:
> http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/emacs/emacs_299.html
>
> asm-comment-char can be set. So I added this to my .emacs:
>
> (set 'asm-comment-char "#")
>
> This makes ; stop highlighting like a comment, but doesn't make # do
> anything. Am I doing anything obviously wrong? Is there some mode file
> somewhere that actually handles the GNU assembler syntax?
>
> Brendan

(setq asm-comment-char ?#)

It think it has to be a character (not a string).

-ap