Re: Problems with outline-minor-mode

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Laurence Finston wrote:
 > I'd like `/*\s-' to be recognized as a prefix, followed by a variable
 > number of dollar signs indicating the level of the heading.  However,
 > the whitespace characters are always counted in determining the
 > heading level, so that `/* $$ */' and `/* $ */' are equivalent.

You could define your own outline-level function:

(defun lfinsto1-outline-level ()
   "Return the number of `$' characters matched at point by `outline-regexp'."
   (save-excursion
     (looking-at outline-regexp)
     (car (read-from-string (count-matches "\\$"
					  (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))))))

(set (make-local-variable 'outline-level)
      'lfinsto1-outline-level)

 > I've also tried to get the regular expression \s-*\*/ to be recognized
 > as the `outline-heading-end-regexp', but it hasn't worked, so that
 > `/* $' followed by whitespace and `\n' is a valid heading.
 > (I haven't tried this with GNU Emacs 21.2.1)

I would just leave outline-heading-end-regexp to its default value "\n",
or maybe prepend " *\*/" to it.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers