Re: outrageous comment syntax

[Stefan Monnier]

>> comment-start-skip's value is
>> "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\);+ *"
>> Local in buffer simple-haskell.el; global value is nil
>> 
>> Documentation:
>> *Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.
>> If there are any \(...\) pairs, the comment delimiter text is held to begin
>> at the place matched by the close of the first pair.
>> 
>> 
>> However, I have a language with two comment syntaxes, one of which
>> depends on leading context and the other doesn't.  How in the world can
>> I set this variable properly?  The context must be within the first
>> group, and it cannot be :-(

Since you haven't provided any hard data, I'll give you a sample solution to
another problem:

   (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip)
        "#+[ \t]*\\|\\(uglyprefix +\\)--+[ \t]*")

Now maybe you problem can't be solved in the same way, of course.
The group-1 convention doesn't cover all cases.


        Stefan