From fd697a76577f44a90824eb67dc4f3aefa1713891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 01:11:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Parsing Expressions): Delete old caveat about parse-sexp-ignore-comments. --- lispref/syntax.texi | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/lispref/syntax.texi b/lispref/syntax.texi index a2153cee4f8..b2955400c8f 100644 --- a/lispref/syntax.texi +++ b/lispref/syntax.texi @@ -761,12 +761,6 @@ can still override the syntax.) @cindex skipping comments If the value is non-@code{nil}, then comments are treated as whitespace by the functions in this section and by @code{forward-sexp}. - -In older Emacs versions, this feature worked only when the comment -terminator is something like @samp{*/}, and appears only to end a -comment. In languages where newlines terminate comments, it was -necessary make this variable @code{nil}, since not every newline is the -end of a comment. This limitation no longer exists. @end defvar @vindex parse-sexp-lookup-properties -- 2.39.2