2008-02-15 Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li> (tiny change)

         * ielm.el (ielm-is-whitespace): Remove.
         (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment): New function.
         (ielm-eval-input): Use it.

diff --git a/lisp/ielm.el b/lisp/ielm.el
index 764e78bc7342328938072b7e82a339ed5f7483af..a9255587be51fda1086fec9b0b5edba90f77811d 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ielm.el
+++ b/lisp/ielm.el
@@ -300,9 +300,10 @@ simply inserts a newline."
 
 ;;; Utility functions
 
-(defun ielm-is-whitespace (string)
+(defun ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment (string)
   "Return non-nil if STRING is all whitespace."
-  (or (string= string "") (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]+\\'" string)))
+  (or (string= string "") 
+      (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]*\\(?:;.*\\)*\\'" string)))
 
 ;;; Evaluation
 
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ simply inserts a newline."
        (ielm-output    "")             ; result to display
        (ielm-wbuf ielm-working-buffer) ; current buffer after evaluation
        (ielm-pmark (ielm-pm)))
-    (if (not (ielm-is-whitespace ielm-string))
+    (if (not (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment ielm-string))
        (progn
          (condition-case err
              (let (rout)
@@ -342,7 +343,8 @@ simply inserts a newline."
                (setq ielm-result "Working buffer has been killed"
                      ielm-error-type "IELM Error"
                      ielm-wbuf (current-buffer))
-             (if (ielm-is-whitespace (substring ielm-string ielm-pos))
+             (if (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment
+                   (substring ielm-string ielm-pos))
                  ;; To correctly handle the ielm-local variables *,
                  ;; ** and ***, we need a temporary buffer to be
                  ;; current at entry to the inner of the next two let