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

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks for your explanations.  I think one would have to look at all
> the possible cases to fully get this.

Nobody has time for that: the set of possible cases is unbounded.

> As a (somewhat funny) sidenote: I know a special in-house language,
> for which I also wrote a major mode back then) which uses # as the
> comment character.  But only, and this is the funny part, if it does
> not appear within the arguments of a command, where they are used
> excessively.  

Actually, sh comments are pretty much like that:

   % echo he#lo #world
   he#lo
   %


-- Stefan