Mercurial > emacs
changeset 52786:69d6dc55b638
(Parsing Expressions): Mention parse-sexp-lookup-properties here.
forward-comment: return values
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:50:19 +0000 |
| parents | 2c00436e93f7 |
| children | 785941182067 |
| files | lispref/syntax.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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