Re: Error with fill-paragraph in my own major mode

[Stefan Kamphausen]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Nevertheless I must admit that I don't really grok that code in
>> fill.el.  What is that (concat "\0" commark "a") good for?
>
> The code in fill.el is fiendishly subtle (I should know, I wrote it).

"subtle" is too friendly a word ;-)

> [SNIP]
>
> That's what the comment tries to explain:

.. and what I tried to understand.

Thanks for your explanations.  I think one would have to look at all
the possible cases to fully get this.

As a (somewhat funny) sidenote: I know a special in-house language,
for which I also wrote a major mode back then) which uses # as the
comment character.  But only, and this is the funny part, if it does
not appear within the arguments of a command, where they are used
excessively.  

# valid comment
Command(arguments, man#y, of,wh#ich, may#contain, hash#es);
AnotherCommand(onearg); # valid comment, too

Try dealing with that.  I gave up ;-)

Regards
Stefan
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