From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font-lock with newcomment.el Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 10:23:51 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3ED78597.1060500@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054312471 27961 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 16:34:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:34:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 30 18:34:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Lmno-00079z-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 18:32:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19Lmgy-0000yR-74 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2003 12:25:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054311822 7107732 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113893 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10388 David C Sterratt wrote: >>>>>>Stefan Monnier writes: > > Oh, and David, regarding your mode: do a C-h f looking-at, that > > will save you a bunch of buffer-substrings. > > Thanks for looking at the code. From the looking-at documentation, > it seems like it only matches regexps after the point, whereas in the > current way of doing indentation I need to match symbols anywhere in > the line, in most cases at least. So it's not clear to me how > looking-at will help, unless I rethink the indentation code. I don't have your code in front of me, but it sounds like you're using buffer-substring to extract the current line and then string-match to recognize a pattern in it. Since looking-at only matches its REGEXP argument immediately after point, you can search for any pattern on the current line with (concat ".*" REGEXP), assuming you're at the beginning of the line -- if not, just wrap it in (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) ...). -- Kevin Rodgers