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

[Michael W Daniels]

At 10:19 AM 4/8/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> 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.

Unfortunately, that isn't actually what I meant. I don't think emacs should 
be doing anything with "--" sequences in "body text" (i.e. not inside an 
angle bracket pair), and it seems not to check for a preceding "<!" before 
treating the "--" like a comment prefix.

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