Re: outrageous comment syntax

[Ian Zimmerman]

rgb wrote:
> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > comment-start-skip's value is
> > "\\(\\(^\\|[^\\\\\n]\\)\\(\\\\\\\\\\)*\\);+ *"
> > Local in buffer simple-haskell.el; global value is nil
> >
> > Documentation:
> > *Regexp to match the start of a comment plus everything up to its body.
> > If there are any \(...\) pairs, the comment delimiter text is held to begin
> > at the place matched by the close of the first pair.
> >
> >
> > However, I have a language with two comment syntaxes, one of which
> > depends on leading context and the other doesn't.  How in the world can
> > I set this variable properly?  The context must be within the first
> > group, and it cannot be :-(
>
>
> When you san "cannot be" I assume you mean that use of shy groups
> (?: ...) is insufficient to your needs?

I didn't know Emacs had them.  Thanks for pointing them out to me.