Re: [h-e-w] strange auto-fill behavior in html mode

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Michael,


Michael W Daniels <address@hidden> writes:
> and inserts it again as a prefix. I'm guessing that it's doing this
> because it mistakenly thinks "--" is part of a "<!--" comment
> marker.

I believe, strictly speaking it is not a mistaken.  AFAIK it's like
this: In SGML there is a class of nodes that are delimited with "<!"
and ">" (note that the DOCTYPE declaration also has this form).  In
those nodes, comments start with "--" and end with another "--".  The
usual HTML comments fit that description.  Comments like

  <!-- a b c -- d e f -->

don't.  Of course there is not much other use for these special node
type in HTML, so it's no problem that browsers accept this kind of
comments without complaining.


so long, benny
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