From: mstenber at cc.helsinki.fi (Markus Stenberg)
Date: 29 Apr 1999 07:48:21 +0300
Subject: Emacs' python-mode buggy?
In-Reply-To: Ken Manheimer's message of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:42:17 -0400"
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Ken Manheimer <klm at digicool.com> writes:
> Markus Stenberg wrote:
> I can't speak to the intimacy issue, but the python-mode syntax recognition
> may be due to having a leading '(' open paren in the first column in one of
> your docstrings.  If so, emacs' syntax confusion (not to be mistaken for
> poor gender identification) can be remedied by escaping the leading open
> paren with a '\' backslash, like so:

Ah, what's causing that problem?

> \(this is what to do with parens in docstrings.)
> 
> If it is the problem, well, it's emacs' problem, not pymode.  If it's not,
> well, do track it down.  
> 
> Oh, does that bug constitute the "tons" you mention, or were there others? 
> I never was good at estimating the weight of bugs - all that chiton, you
> know.

Think there is two, as one of my (moderately large) modules has no
docstrings with ('s yet still exhibits that behavior. (ok, I got carried
away, but I was moderately frustrated over the feature :-P)

> Ken Manheimer
> klm at digicool.com

-Markus

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