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From: straz@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Steve Strassmann)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: c-m-f skipping comments
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Date: 14 Jul 89 21:07:20 GMT
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mic@theory.lcs.mit.edu kindly answered my previous message, telling me about
(setq parse-sexp-ignore-comments t). But as he points out, it only seems
to work for comments that don't end in newline, so it's broken for lisp.

I'm using gnuemacs 18.54.1 to edit code in emacs-lisp and lisp modes.
When parse-sexp-ignore-comments is nil, c-m-f and c-m-b are dumb about
lines containing comments.  When parse-sexp-ignore-comments is t, many
things are broken, including backward-sexp (c-m-b), blinking matching
parens, and eval-last-sexp (c-x c-e). 

Again, please cc any replies to me, since I'm not on this list.