Re: fortran-fill-paragraph fails

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >         (commark
>> >          (comment-string-strip (buffer-substring comstart comin) nil t))
>> >         (comment-re
>> > !        (if (string-match comment-start-skip (concat "\0" commark "a"))
>> >              (concat "[ \t]*" (regexp-quote commark)
>> >                      ;; Make sure we only match comments that use
>> >                      ;; the exact same comment marker.
>> 
>> Please add a clear comment explaining the reason for this "\0".

> I must admit that this patch goes much beyond my knowledge of elisp
> hacking. Also, I cannot find anything in the elisp manual explaining
> the meaning of "\0" in this context. If there is a general idea for
> this, I'd much appreciate if it was documented in the elisp manual,
> too. (Or did I look at the wrong spot?)

There's nothing specific to elisp there, and the \0 is just some
arbitrary char: a space would have probably worked just as well.


        Stefan