Re: More C mode syntactic yuckage
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
Insert this at the beginning of a fresh C buffer:
/* Sucks
(sucks
...) something else */
Now go to end of buffer and press M-C-b. For me, this takes point
to
the beginning of `else' instead of skipping the buffer.
You will be (un)happy to know that every version since 19.11 has done
this.
And if you move the `(' off the BOL, everything works fine.
The problem is not in C-mode per se, but deep in the depths of
find_start_of_comment().
Line 526 of syntax.c decides that a character code type of Sopen at
the beginning of the line means we are done looking, and the function
itself will then leave you at the end of the comment.
I guess the thing to do is figure out why the assumption at line 526
is there. I guess I could remove it, rebuild, and see what breaks.
I will.
--
Colin