[ESS] SAS-mode problem with asterisk (infinite loop)

[rodney sparapani]

On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Jim Berry wrote:

> Hi Rodney,
>
> I downloaded and compiled ess-5.2.8.  Same problem with SAS mode.
> GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
>  of 2003-08-20
>
> Same problem on Solaris 9 with emacs 20.4 and emacs 21.3.
> I have not tried this on Windows.
>
>
> emacs -q
> M-x load-file ess-site RET
> C-x C-f junk.sas  RET
>  *;RET
>
> This stalls until I enter C-g. No problem if the asterisk is in column
> 1.  We can easily avoid this, but perhaps a subtle indentation bug.
>
> Thanks
> Jim
>

Hi Jim:

Apparently, this is an GNU Emacs bug.  I don't see this behavior on  
XEmacs.

Thanks, Rodney