bug#14434: 24.3; lisp mode's comment start seems bad

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-05-23 05:32 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> That's one way to see it.  Another is that it's a regression introduced
> by the fix to bug#14303.  It probably affects more than
> emacs-lisp-mode.  So it'd be better to fix it by improving your fix to
> bug#14303.  E.g. after the new while loop which finds the comment start, do
> a looking-at to make sure the match-data extends as far as possible.
>
> Tho maybe, we should take a new look at bug#14303 to see why it failed,
> since after all the old comment-search-backward did already pay
> attention to comment-use-global-state (via comment-search-forward), so
> maybe bug#14303 was really due to a bug in comment-search-forward.

Thanks, Stefan, for the hints.

The fix for bug#14303 seems bad so I have reverted it and instead set
comment-use-global-state to t in octave-mode.

Leo