Re: outrageous comment syntax

[Stefan Monnier]

> comment-start-skip's value is 
> "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\);+ *"
> Local in buffer simple-haskell.el; global value is nil

> Documentation:
> *Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.
> If there are any \(...\) pairs, the comment delimiter text is held to begin
> at the place matched by the close of the first pair.

> However, I have a language with two comment syntaxes, one of which
> depends on leading context and the other doesn't.  How in the world can
> I set this variable properly?  The context must be within the first
> group, and it cannot be :-(

I guess you can't.  Unless of course some concrete detail makes it possible,
but since you haven't provided any...

If you indeed can't, report it with M-x report-emacs-bug, of course,


        Stefan