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elisp: Control Parsing

 
 34.6.5 Parameters to Control Parsing
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  -- Variable: multibyte-syntax-as-symbol
      If this variable is non-‘nil’, ‘scan-sexps’ treats all non-ASCII
      characters as symbol constituents regardless of what the syntax
      table says about them.  (However, text properties can still
      override the syntax.)
 
  -- User Option: parse-sexp-ignore-comments
      If the value is non-‘nil’, then comments are treated as whitespace
      by the functions in this section and by ‘forward-sexp’,
      ‘scan-lists’ and ‘scan-sexps’.
 
    The behavior of ‘parse-partial-sexp’ is also affected by
 ‘parse-sexp-lookup-properties’ (Syntax Properties).
 
  -- Variable: comment-end-can-be-escaped
      If this buffer local variable is non-‘nil’, a single character
      which usually terminates a comment doesn’t do so when that
      character is escaped.  This is used in C and C++ Modes, where line
      comments starting with ‘//’ can be continued onto the next line by
      escaping the newline with ‘\’.
 
    You can use ‘forward-comment’ to move forward or backward over one
 comment or several comments.
 

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