Re: 'forward-comment' bug [Was: vhdl-mode bug?]

Reto> That might be dangerous. forward-comment is heavily used in Reto> some indentation engines for skipping comments. No kidding. But profiling suggests that something is very wrong in the algorithm we're using, it may be quadratic or worse. Reto> If there is no hope for a quick fix in XEmacs I can try to Reto> fix it this way in vhdl-mode. I think that would be a big win for vhdl-mode users. This business of supporting 5 or 6 different comment styles and multiple string delimiters too makes the C code very hairy. Somebody like Stefan Monnier might be able to disentangle it, but we have nobody like that available right now. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py