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- From: ddw2@sunbim.be (ddw for rubis at horizon)
- Subject: Lightbrite.el and comments
- Message-ID: <DDW2.92Dec23112236@jacobi.sunbim.be>
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- Organization: BIM sa/nv, Everberg, Belgium
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:14:51 GMT
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- I have been looking at Marc's package and found it very nice.
- I would have loved if it had worked right away on prolog code where
- there are (at least :-) 2 styles of comments:
- % up to eol
- and /* */
- (The problem should also appear in C++ I think).
-
- As the code is, it only highlights the first line of a comment
- starting with /*
-
- In my attempt to find why, I looked at syntax-decode.el and
- understood (or maybe I did not). The mechanism describing comments in
- the syntax tables is not sufficient to provide an exact view of
- comments when there are several possibilities.
-
- What I think is needed is some way to determine what is the
- end-of-comment-regexp given a start-of-comment-string that we found.
- (or the reverse if scanning backwards).
-
- Has anyone worked on a more or less general solution to this problem?
- I'd be interested in any pointer to a solution.
-
-
- Thanks,
-
- Dominique
-
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