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bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of
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Stefan Kangas |
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bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of nil mean? |
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Sat, 23 Oct 2021 10:32:38 -0700 |
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
>> in the docstring of `parse-sexp-ignore-comments' (or at least in the
>> manual), I miss a description about what a value of nil exactly means:
>> How are comments treated then? Are they treated as separate units that
>> can then be parsed as well, but separately from code, or are they treated
>> as indistinguishable from code?
>>
>> For example, if parsing starts from within a comment, and parsing finds
>> the end of the comment and is not yet finished, is parsing just
>> continued inside the following code, or does it fail?
>
> After doing some testing, it seems that if it's nil, the commands
> affected by the setting just treat the commented-out text as if it
> wasn't commented out.
>
> So the answer to your last question seems to be "yes".
>
> ;; (foo
>
> (bar zot))
>
> However, pretty much the same thing happens with a non-nil value, too --
> with point before (foo C-M-f will advance past zot)).
>
> So it doesn't treat comments as whitespace, really -- it only does that
> if point is outside (before, at the end of a line, etc) the comment to
> begin with. Seems like you could write an essay about it, but perhaps
> it's not worth listing the eccentricities here which I guess could change.
So is there anything more to do here, or could this be closed? I can't
see anything actionable from reading this thread.
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