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| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/syntax.texi | 8 |
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diff --git a/lispref/syntax.texi b/lispref/syntax.texi index b9ac26188d7..217e0ccbd67 100644 --- a/lispref/syntax.texi +++ b/lispref/syntax.texi @@ -769,6 +769,10 @@ necessary make this variable @code{nil}, since not every newline is the end of a comment. This limitation no longer exists. @end defvar +@vindex parse-sexp-lookup-properties +The behaviour of @code{parse-partial-sexp} is also affected by +@code{parse-sexp-lookup-properties} @xref{Syntax Properties}. + You can use @code{forward-comment} to move forward or backward over one comment or several comments. @@ -781,7 +785,9 @@ other than a comment or whitespace, it stops, leaving point at the place where it stopped. This includes (for instance) finding the end of a comment when moving forward and expecting the beginning of one. The function also stops immediately after moving over the specified -number of complete comments. +number of complete comments. If @var{count} comments are found as +expected, with nothing except whitespace between them, return +@code{t}; otherwise return @code{nil}. This function cannot tell whether the ``comments'' it traverses are embedded within a string. If they look like comments, it treats them |