Re: Is there any elisp functions to tell whether the cursor is in a comment block?

[Joe Bloggs]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> for example, if the cursor is in a normal c code block, I want 'if '
>> to be expanded to 'if () {}', if it is in the comment block, I prefer
>> 'if ' not be expanded.
>
> ;; Non-nil when inside comment or string
> (nth 8 (syntax-ppss (point)))
>
> -- 
> Johan Bockgård

I want to do that too, how do I do a conditional abbrev?
Currently I have:

(define-abbrev c-mode-abbrev-table "for"
  "" 'c-style-for-loop)
(define-abbrev c++-mode-abbrev-table "for"
  "" 'c-style-for-loop)

how would I make it only expand in uncommented code?