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From: ellis@FLAIRMAX.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: syntax tables
Message-ID: <196@FLAIRMAX.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 17:17:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 17:17:28 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Aug-83 10:49:52 EDT
Organization: Fairchild AI Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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    Now that you mention it, "dump-syntax-table" doesn't seem to work for
    me either... it always gives the dump for "fundamental mode".  Hmm...
    it worked only a few months ago.
     
    While we're on the topic of syntax tables, has anyone ever fixed
    C-style comments to work correctly in Gosmacs ? In my version (I don't
    know what number it is - we call it "SRIemacs" - the first two letters
    mean "simple & reliable", I think), things like apostrophes enclosed in
    comments, such as:

    {
	this (is, c, code);		/* Here's a problem comment */
	...
    }

    ...cause syntax recognition to get lost when trying to match bracketing
    {}'s. Gosmacs wants to find the non-existent match for what it thinks
    is a single quote - really only a commented apostrophe.

    This bug makes things like "indent-C-procedure" almost useless.

    Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 858-4270