Re: forward-comment, C-M-a and C-M-e problems in bibtex-mode

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

  > > If I have a bib file containing:
  > > @Comment blah blah blah
  > > @Comment blah blah blah
  > 
  > > Doing:
  > > M-: (goto-char 1) RET M-: (forward-comment 2) RET M-: (point) RET
  > 
  > > prints: 
  > > 1
  > 
  > > If @ is replaced with % (the other comment character), then
  > > forward-comment works as expected.
  > 
  > Last I looked at this, I decided not to change anything because I simply
  > couldn't figure out what is the syntax of comments in BibTeX.
  > I've found various textual descriptions, but they're all vague, and from my
  > tests against the actual implementation, they didn't seem to correspond to
  > any actual truth.
  > 
  > So please explain clearly what's the syntax of comments in BibTeX:
  > for both % and @comment, the two questions are
  > - where can they appear?
  > - where does the comment end?

I have no idea, I just use comment-dwim... 

Oh, and I forgot another problem: doing C-c C-c inside a comment
throws a Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p error.