From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:27:03 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13ri26n4913br9a@news.supernews.com> (raw)
Hi:
I'm using the following regex subexpression:
"\\<\\("
As the left-hand word boundary for syntax highlighting in
a lisp-style programming language.
"\\(" adds the opening parenthesis as a word boundary.
I would like to add the colon (':') as an additional word
boundary character.
The subexpressions:
"\\<\\(:" and "\\<\\(\\:" don't seem to work.
In addition I have the following entry:
(?: . "w") to the syntax table.
Could someone advise me on how to make this work correctly.
On a related note, I believe that there is an emacs add-on that
allows the user to test elisp regexes, but for the life of me,
I can't remember where to find it.
TIA
Tim
next reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 4:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 4:27 Tim Johnson [this message]
2008-02-18 12:58 ` Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting Johan Bockgård
2008-02-18 16:00 ` Tim Johnson
2008-02-18 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 19:23 ` Tim Johnson
2008-02-20 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 20:37 ` Tim Johnson
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