2008-02-15 Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li> (tiny change)

         * ielm.el (ielm-is-whitespace): Remove.
         (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment): New function.
         (ielm-eval-input): Use it.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ielm.el b/lisp/ielm.el
index 764e78bc734..a9255587be5 100644
--- a/lisp/ielm.el
+++ b/lisp/ielm.el
@@ -300,9 +300,10 @@ simply inserts a newline."
 
 ;;; Utility functions
 
-(defun ielm-is-whitespace (string)
+(defun ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment (string)
   "Return non-nil if STRING is all whitespace."
-  (or (string= string "") (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]+\\'" string)))
+  (or (string= string "") 
+      (string-match "\\`[ \t\n]*\\(?:;.*\\)*\\'" string)))
 
 ;;; Evaluation
 
@@ -327,7 +328,7 @@ simply inserts a newline."
         (ielm-output    "")             ; result to display
         (ielm-wbuf ielm-working-buffer) ; current buffer after evaluation
         (ielm-pmark (ielm-pm)))
-    (if (not (ielm-is-whitespace ielm-string))
+    (if (not (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment ielm-string))
         (progn
           (condition-case err
               (let (rout)
@@ -342,7 +343,8 @@ simply inserts a newline."
                 (setq ielm-result "Working buffer has been killed"
                       ielm-error-type "IELM Error"
                       ielm-wbuf (current-buffer))
-              (if (ielm-is-whitespace (substring ielm-string ielm-pos))
+              (if (ielm-is-whitespace-or-comment
+                   (substring ielm-string ielm-pos))
                   ;; To correctly handle the ielm-local variables *,
                   ;; ** and ***, we need a temporary buffer to be
                   ;; current at entry to the inner of the next two let