Re: bug#31636: 27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual

[Noam Postavsky]

 On 5 June 2018 at 15:51, Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:
> Latest version attached. I now limit the skip-syntax-backward to the
> current line.

> ((char-syntax (char-before)) at bol is '?>' in texinfo mode, which is
> somewhat surprising, since it's '? ' in text mode)

This is the case in every mode which supports line comments, I think.

> +  (cond
> +   ;; parenthesis
> +   ((looking-back "\(")

That "\(" should be just "(". And I think you'll want to give a limit
to the looking-back calls, otherwise they can keep searching until the
beginning of buffer.