# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 1065459019 0
# Node ID 69d6dc55b638905b9cb6f3b46dd6d1d6a1fc567f
# Parent  2c00436e93f713336c882521b30225cf0df29b80
(Parsing Expressions): Mention parse-sexp-lookup-properties here.
forward-comment: return values

diff -r 2c00436e93f7 -r 69d6dc55b638 lispref/syntax.texi
--- a/lispref/syntax.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:46:25 2003 +0000
+++ b/lispref/syntax.texi	Mon Oct 06 16:50:19 2003 +0000
@@ -769,6 +769,10 @@
 end of a comment.  This limitation no longer exists.
 @end defvar
 
+@vindex parse-sexp-lookup-properties
+The behaviour of @code{parse-partial-sexp} is also affected by
+@code{parse-sexp-lookup-properties} @xref{Syntax Properties}.
+
 You can use @code{forward-comment} to move forward or backward over
 one comment or several comments.
 
@@ -781,7 +785,9 @@
 place where it stopped.  This includes (for instance) finding the end
 of a comment when moving forward and expecting the beginning of one.
 The function also stops immediately after moving over the specified
-number of complete comments.
+number of complete comments.  If @var{count} comments are found as
+expected, with nothing except whitespace between them, return
+@code{t}; otherwise return @code{nil}.
 
 This function cannot tell whether the ``comments'' it traverses are
 embedded within a string.  If they look like comments, it treats them