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[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 6107e12: Improve documentation of comment styles
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Eli Zaretskii |
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[Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 6107e12: Improve documentation of comment styles |
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Sat, 2 Jun 2018 07:02:03 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: emacs-26
commit 6107e12f76d3f7ea3136b04d8856b3f9ebc97e1d
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Improve documentation of comment styles
* doc/lispref/syntax.texi (Syntax Flags): Define the "a" style.
(Bug#31624)
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doc/lispref/syntax.texi | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/lispref/syntax.texi b/doc/lispref/syntax.texi
index 44a7730..71c97fd 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/syntax.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/syntax.texi
@@ -339,11 +339,13 @@ same style will be recognized. For a two-character
comment delimiter,
@cindex comment style
Emacs supports several comment styles simultaneously in any one syntax
table. A comment style is a set of flags @samp{b}, @samp{c}, and
address@hidden, so there can be up to 8 different comment styles.
-Each comment delimiter has a style and only matches comment delimiters
-of the same style. Thus if a comment starts with the comment-start
-sequence of style ``bn'', it will extend until the next matching
-comment-end sequence of style ``bn''.
address@hidden, so there can be up to 8 different comment styles, each one
+named by the set of its flags. Each comment delimiter has a style and
+only matches comment delimiters of the same style. Thus if a comment
+starts with the comment-start sequence of style ``bn'', it will extend
+until the next matching comment-end sequence of style ``bn''. When
+the set of flags has neither flag @samp{b} nor flag @samp{c} set, the
+resulting style is called the ``a'' style.
The appropriate comment syntax settings for C++ can be as follows:
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