Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 326ffcc: Allow line comments ending with escaped NL to be continued to the next line.

[Stefan Monnier]

> -      /* Ignore escaped characters, except comment-enders.  */
> -      if (code != Sendcomment && char_quoted (from, from_byte))
> +      /* Ignore escaped characters, except comment-enders which cannot
> +         be escaped.  */
> +      if ((Vcomment_end_can_be_escaped || code != Sendcomment)
> +          && char_quoted (from, from_byte))
[...]
>        if (code == Sendcomment
>         && SYNTAX_FLAGS_COMMENT_STYLE (syntax, 0) == style
>         && (SYNTAX_FLAGS_COMMENT_NESTED (syntax) ?
> -           (nesting > 0 && --nesting == 0) : nesting < 0))
> +           (nesting > 0 && --nesting == 0) : nesting < 0)
> +          && !(Vcomment_end_can_be_escaped && char_quoted (from, from_byte)))

Hmm... the way I read this, it would mean that

        /*blabla\*/

will be treated as an unclosed comment.  Is that the way C defines it as well?


        Stefan