From: bmaron2@hotmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: font-lock and multiline comments
Date: 9 Feb 2007 12:14:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171052093.030862.26790@v33g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> (raw)
I am writing a new major mode for an in-house programming language.
We'd like to have emacs do syntactic highlighting on the comments. The
language supports two kinds of comments:
// In-line C++ style comments
Comments
Multi-line comments flagged by Comments/EndComments
Here is another line
EndComments
The in-line style I was able to easily add with a syntax table
modification. The multi-line comments, however, I can't do because the
syntax tables only support comment syntax with 1 or 2 characters.
I then turned to font-lock mode. Adding the following font-lock
keyword didn't work if there were more than maybe 7 or 8 lines between
Comments and EndComments:
'("^[ \t]*Comments\\(.\\|\n\\)*EndComments" . font-lock-comment-face)
Apparently font-lock regions aren't designed to span multiple lines?
Can someone tell me how to get font-lock to recognize and properly
mark these multi-line comments?
Many thanks!!
next reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 20:14 UTC|newest]
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2007-02-09 20:14 bmaron2 [this message]
2007-02-09 20:28 ` font-lock and multiline comments Stefan Monnier
2007-02-09 20:45 ` bmaron2
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