[slime-devel] Why are column 1 `(' highlighted in #| ... |# blocks?

Stas Boukarev stassats at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 14:27:27 UTC 2009


Stas Boukarev <stassats at gmail.com> writes:

> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In the #| ... |# comment blocks, opening parenthesis in column 1 (first column) are highlighted in red.
>>
>> What is the reason for that?
> Slime has nothing to do with it, that's how emacs parses lisp files,
> that is, not very well. So it highlights ( in the comments and
> docstrings, because it may break some operations on the source
> code. Escaping it will help.
Some more information:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Left-Margin-Paren.html

-- 
With best regards, Stas.




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