(comment-normalize-vars): Use [ \t] for the trailing

spaces in default comment-start-skip settings rather than \s-.

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 12abcfb250290e6d1265a31e4fb8092eef37aa9a..ddd6105ccad94e83da9a612de5bb757d641ef13f 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2001-03-02  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
+
+       * newcomment.el (comment-normalize-vars): Use [ \t] for the trailing
+       spaces in default comment-start-skip settings rather than \s-.
+
 2001-03-02  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
        * term/pc-win.el (msdos-handle-reverse-video): Look for reverse in

diff --git a/lisp/newcomment.el b/lisp/newcomment.el
index 09b928dea264cc32aac4236070393a0eec940897..9ddcda42769cc40e30d8700ea95510e8a082c0ff 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/newcomment.el
+++ b/lisp/newcomment.el
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ;; Author: code extracted from Emacs-20's simple.el
 ;; Maintainer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@cs.yale.edu>
 ;; Keywords: comment uncomment
-;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.29 2000/12/18 03:17:31 monnier Exp $
+;; Revision: $Id: newcomment.el,v 1.30 2001/02/22 01:47:40 monnier Exp $
 
 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 
@@ -233,7 +233,9 @@ This is obsolete because you might as well use \\[newline-and-indent]."
       (set (make-local-variable 'comment-start-skip)
           (concat "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\)\\(\\s<+\\|"
                   (regexp-quote (comment-string-strip comment-start t t))
-                  "+\\)\\s-*")))
+                  ;; Let's not allow any \s- but only [ \t] since \n
+                  ;; might be both a comment-end marker and \s-.
+                  "+\\)[ \t]*")))
     (unless comment-end-skip
       (let ((ce (if (string= "" comment-end) "\n"
                  (comment-string-strip comment-end t t))))
@@ -346,15 +348,18 @@ and raises an error or returns nil of NOERROR is non-nil."
   "Find the beginning of the enclosing comment.
 Returns nil if not inside a comment, else moves point and returns
 the same as `comment-search-forward'."
-  (let ((pt (point))
-       (cs (comment-search-backward nil t)))
-    (when cs
-      (if (save-excursion
-           (goto-char cs)
-           (if (comment-forward 1) (> (point) pt) (eobp)))
-         cs
-       (goto-char pt)
-       nil))))
+  ;; HACK ATTACK!
+  ;; We should really test `in-string-p' but that can be expensive.
+  (unless (eq (get-text-property (point) 'face) 'font-lock-string-face)
+    (let ((pt (point))
+         (cs (comment-search-backward nil t)))
+      (when cs
+       (if (save-excursion
+             (goto-char cs)
+             (if (comment-forward 1) (> (point) pt) (eobp)))
+           cs
+         (goto-char pt)
+         nil)))))
 
 (defun comment-forward (&optional n)
   "Skip forward over N comments.