bug#25722: 26.0.50; awk-mode does not recognize comments

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Dirk-Jan.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 13:26:51 +0200, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:

> With emacs 26,
>   emacs -Q /tmp/test.awk
> now, add a comment:

> # this is a comment

> it does not get font-locked; same thing does work with emacs 25.x

Thanks for the report.  The problem was a side effect of another fix
last spring.  It's now fixed in master.

> In GNU Emacs 26.0.50.9 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.7)
>  of 2017-02-13 built on borealis
> Repository revision: 4b18ef7ba3dd8aae4f3c3bf931365ef7da883baf
> Windowing system distributor 'Fedora Project', version 11.0.11804000
> System Description:   Fedora release 25 (Twenty Five)

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