Re: Musings: Supposed places of safety, guaranteed by parse-partial-sexp are not safe.

[Daniel Colascione]

On 12/3/11 3:23 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I think it would be a good idea to provide a function to test for this
> "half comment" state, somewhat like `syntax-ppss-toplevel-pos'.  This
> new defun could be called something like
> `syntax-ppss-comment-half-opener' and calling it would return nil
> usually, but ?/ in these circumstances.
> 
> What do other people think?

Why not just scan one character further ahead, using the previous position and
parse state, to see whether you then enter a comment?

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