From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:37:34 -0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13rp3rlaap66r28@news.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv63wjjtzo.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Perhaps my thinking should be revised to mean
>> "eliminate ':' as a word constituent"
>
> Better would be to describe concretely with an example what you want
> to do.
>
>
> Stefan
:-) I want to highlight "second" as in (second lst)
or "second" as in (std:second lst)
I created an intermediary solution by adding a group
with ":\\(" as the left regex. Works as I want...
The full solution might be something like this (I think,
but haven't combined them and haven't tested)
":\\(\\|\\<\\(" Where the alternatives are 1)empty string
2)colon
Unfortunately, I don't code elisp or elisp regexes for a living
and I tend to forget most of what I've learned from one session to
another.
I believe that your logical explanation put me on the right track.
thanks
----
Tim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 4:27 Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting Tim Johnson
2008-02-18 12:58 ` 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 [this message]
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