Restore earlier behavior of -- to stop comments. Bug #7

Author: drbrain

History.txt

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
     test can be created.  RubyForge bug #28821 by Usaku Nakamura.
   * Fixed line-height of headings in method and alias descriptions.  RubyForge
     Bug #2770 by Adam Avilla
+  * Relaxed RDoc::Parser::Ruby#remove_private_comments to consume more dashes
+    as older versions once did.  Bug #7 by Claus Folke Brobak.
 
 === 3.4 / 2010-01-06
 

lib/rdoc/parser/ruby.rb

@@ -1647,8 +1647,8 @@ def remove_private_comments(comment)
     empty = ''
     empty.force_encoding comment.encoding if Object.const_defined? :Encoding
 
-    comment.gsub!(/^#--\n.*?^#\+\+\n?/m, empty)
-    comment.sub!(/^#--\n.*\n?/m, empty)
+    comment.gsub!(/^#--.*?^#\+\+\n?/m, empty)
+    comment.sub!(/^#--.*/m, '')
   end
 
   ##

test/test_rdoc_parser_ruby.rb

@@ -203,6 +203,25 @@ def test_remove_private_comments_encoding
     assert_equal Encoding::IBM437, comment.encoding
   end
 
+  def test_remove_private_comments_long
+    util_parser ''
+
+    comment = <<-EOS
+#-----
+#++
+# this is text
+#-----
+    EOS
+
+    expected = <<-EOS
+# this is text
+    EOS
+
+    @parser.remove_private_comments(comment)
+
+    assert_equal expected, comment
+  end
+
   def test_remove_private_comments_rule
     util_parser ''