Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Impending release...

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Ralf Angeli (2005-05-09) writes:
>
>> The wrong fontifications should now be fixed, which should also
>> improve performance a bit.  Improving it even further will mean to
>> deal with `comment-forward'.  It should disregard comment starters
>> at line beginnings in docTeX mode.  I don't know yet how to fix
>> this.  Maybe by modifying `comment-start-skip'.  But I'll have to
>> check how this goes along with filling.  If there are bad
>> interactions maybe changing it locally could help.  But I'll have
>> to look deeper here.
>
> There now is a new `font-latex-forward-comment' function with
> special provisions for docTeX mode.  The code turned out rather
> ugly, but it does its job.

Maybe I am dull, but wouldn't it be easier just to do some
save-restriction or something and then limit the search in that
manner?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum