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- From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
- Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help
- Subject: Re: Need help with lhilit regular expression
- Message-ID: <WARSAW.92Dec22130336@anthem.nlm.nih.gov>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:03:36 GMT
- References: <50683@shamash.cdc.com>
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- Reply-To: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
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- Organization: Century Computing, Inc.
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- In-Reply-To: bjdunlop@shamash.cdc.com's message of 19 Dec 92 02:49:16 GMT
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- >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Dunlop <bjdunlop@shamash.cdc.com> writes:
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- Bruce> I am trying to make lhilit handle verilog comments. One
- Bruce> comment syntax is //, which indicates a comment from the
- Bruce> current column to the end of the current line. The other
- Bruce> comment syntax is like C, /* ...*/.
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- c++-mode.el suffers from the same dilemma. Vanilla emacs (and
- derivatives) cannot handle more than 1 comment style per buffer.
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- c++-mode.el plays lots of tricks with elisp to almost get it right.
- Really emacs needs to be fixed, and in fact there are some beta level
- patches available. Email me for more information.
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- -Barry
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- PS. I should know, I'm the c++-mode.el maintainer... ;-}
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