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From: dzzr@beta.lanl.gov (Douglas J Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU 18.51 paren checker problem.
Keywords: Doesn't ignore commented lines.
Message-ID: <20309@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 15 Jun 88 16:59:22 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lines: 27

There is a problem with GNU's paren checker, in that it doesn't ignore
lines that have been commented out. In the example below, the
commented line causes the paren checker to think that there are
unbalanced parentheses when you put the cursor at the end of the defun
and do a M-C-b.

Anybody have a fix for this? We have lots of existing code containing
lines that have been commented out for debugging purposes, & I'd hate
to have to go back and remove them all.
--Doug

(defun test ()
  (let (
	(var1  3.0) 
	) 
    (cond (
	   t
	   ()
;;;	   ))
	   ))
    ))
	 
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Douglas Roberts
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(505)667-4569
dzzr@lanl.gov
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