From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Request for changing regexp for `&' lambda list keywords
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:44:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dr6026$vlj$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hd7vghae.fsf@GNUlot.localnet>
Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> Hi Emacs-hackers,
>
> the regexp responsible for recognizing lambda list keywords looks
> currently like this:
>
> ;; ELisp and CLisp `&' keywords as types.
> ("\\&\\sw+\\>" . font-lock-type-face)
>
> (part of LISP-FONT-LOCK-KEYWORDS-2 in `font-lock.el')
>
> I'd like to propose changing the regexp to "\\<\\&\sw+\\>" such that
> symbols like, for instance, the symbol `FROB-&KEY-PARAMETERS' that
> surely names a function, don't get fontified just right after the
> ampersand in FONT-LOCK-TYPE-FACE.
Either way, why does the ampersand need to be escaped with a backslash?
--
Kevin Rodgers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-23 14:17 Request for changing regexp for `&' lambda list keywords Tobias C. Rittweiler
2006-01-24 13:38 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-01-24 19:44 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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