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bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of
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Michael Heerdegen |
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bug#24172: 25.1; Doc of parse-sexp-ignore-comments: what does a value of nil mean? |
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Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:18:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Alan McKenzie <MAILER-DAEMON@mail.muc.de> writes:
> All in all, this variable seems not to be a good idea. It is not
> tested consistently by the syntax routines (see above), must be set
> explicitly to t by any major mode with comments, the nil value is
> rarely used, and it is not clear whether this nil value is actually
> ever useful.
My question mainly arised from pondering whether this variable could be
useful for el-search, a package for searching Elisp code (with
patterns). It could be of minor use if it allowed to search commented
code. But I can also implement this in other ways. Apart from that, I
have no use cases, so I wrote the bug report only because of the unclear
documentation.
But the variable seems to be used. I have 75 matches in my load-path.
Michael.