Re: search for next occurence that is not commented out

On 11/19/11 07:32, Andy Wokula wrote:
> Am 19.11.2011 13:27, schrieb Tim Chase:
>> On 11/19/11 05:05, Eric Smith wrote:
>>> How do I find the next occurance of a pattern which is not
>>> preceeded in the same line by a comment token? The identity of
>>> the comment token should be derived from the current
>>> filetype.
>>
>> For the below, I'm
>> assuming you can access that information in the variable
>> "b:comment_leader"
>
> I think in place of b:comment_leader, you can (rather) almost count on
> 'cms'/'commentstring':

I'm not sure how reliable that is either, as I just opened a .py
file and the 'cms' was set to "/*%s*/" which isn't a valid
comment leader for Python.

Additionally, some C-like languages support blockwise comments
(such as "/* ... */" or even "#ifdef 0 ...