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Lightbrite.el and comments

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From: ddw for rubis at horizon
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:14
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I have been looking at Marc's package and found it very nice. 
I would have loved if it had worked right away on prolog code where
there are (at least :-) 2 styles of comments:
         % up to eol
and      /*   */ 
(The problem should also appear in C++ I think).

As the code is, it only highlights the first line of a comment
starting with /*

In my attempt to find why, I looked at syntax-decode.el and
understood (or maybe I did not). The mechanism describing comments in
the syntax tables is not sufficient to provide an exact view of
comments when there are several possibilities.

What I think is needed is some way to determine what is the
end-of-comment-regexp given a start-of-comment-string that we found.
(or the reverse if scanning backwards). 

Has anyone worked on a more or less general solution to this problem?
I'd be interested in any pointer to a solution.


Thanks,

Dominique

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