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Re: Error with fill-paragraph in my own major mode


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Error with fill-paragraph in my own major mode
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:49:37 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Today it has been brought to my attention that there is an error when
> one tries to fill a paragraph (M-q) using that major mode in Gnu Emacs
> 22.  Back then I wrote that mode in XEmacs, today I seem to be a Gnu
> Emacs user so I'd like to fix that issue.

> Hitting M-q leads to an error
> Args out of range: "", -1, 0

> Using debug-on-error and edebug I could track that error down to the
> following code in function fill-comment-paragraph in fill.el:

>   (if (string-match comment-start-skip (concat "\0" commark "a"))
>       (concat "[ \t]*" (regexp-quote commark)
>               ;; Make sure we only match comments that
>               ;; use the exact same comment marker.
>               "[^" (substring commark -1) "]")
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The problem is the setting of comment-start-skip.
This regexp should match a "comment-start marker" (plus some optional
whitespace), where you set it to "".


        Stefan


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