`comment-dwim' leaves ;; in strings when uncommenting

[Oliver Scholz]

Here's a recipe to reproduce the bug in CVS Emacs, starting from -q
--no-site-file. Eval this:

(progn (switch-to-buffer (generate-new-buffer "*tmp*"))
       (emacs-lisp-mode)
       (set (make-local-variable 'transient-mark-mode)
            t)
       (insert "\"lirum larum\nlirum larum\nlirum larum\"")
       ;; Comment everything out.
       (comment-region (point-min) (point-max)))

Then type `C-x h M-;' (`comment-dwim' called with the active region
covering the whole buffer).

As you see the comment chars inside the string are left.  This is
very annoying, because it also affects, for example, doc strings in
Lisp functions.


    Oliver
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