>> But does it matter in such a case whether it has punctuation syntax or
>> symbol syntax? Do you also give symbol syntax to the /
>> directory separator as well?
> A / is an illegal character in any part of a filename on this system.
> In this language / / are most often seen as paired delimit
> >> > (modify-syntax-entry ?\= "_ b12" st) ; comment start ==
> >>
> >> Yes, it seems the problem is that your 2-char comment
> sequence is made
> >> of symbol-chars, so there are cases where the code does
> things like "oh,
> >> here's a symbol, let's skip it" without checking whether
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>> > (modify-syntax-entry ?\= "_ b12" st) ; comment start ==
>>
>> Yes, it seems the problem is that your 2-char comment sequence is made
>> of symbol-chars, so there are cases where the code does things like "oh,
>> here's a symbol, let
