Re: skipping comments in code

Hi Steve Are you using any kind of G-code mode? Your problem seems to be that ?\" is seen as string quote character. You could simply change the syntax-table entry for this character to something sensible, such as punctuation. Set the syntax class of the parentheses to comment-starter and *-ender, respectively. If all that is done, you can use the existing function #'forward-comment for skipping comments. To get you started: (define-derived-mode g-code-mode nil "G-Code" "" (modify-syntax-entry ?\( "<" g-code-mode-syntax-table) (modify-syntax-entry ?\) ">" g-code-mode-syntax-table) (modify-syntax-entry ?\" "." g-code-mode-syntax-table) ) HTH Marcus -- note that "property" can also be used as syntactic sugar to reference a property, breaking the clean design of verilog; [...] (seen on http://www.veripool.com/verilog-mode_news.html) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta