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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Context sensitive code highlighting.
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:17:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FB7E62.7030200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myo4h43d.fsf@member.fsf.org>

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Robin.Fairey@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> How hard would it be to implement context sensitive font lock
>> behaviour? I'm thinking of something that scans the code for an
>> argument list and then highlights subsequent occurences of the
>> argument names in a new colour.

See

   (info "(elisp) Search-based Fontification")

You can use a function instead of a regexp for searching for things to 
highlight. So it is possible to do what you want. You just need to do 
some book-keeping.

> Have a look at highlight-symbol.el [1], especially `highlight-symbol-mode'.
> 
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> __________
> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/HighlightSymbol
>     http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/


It is very good, but would look much better if a background overlay 
could be used instead in hi-lock.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-08 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08  9:51 Context sensitive code highlighting Robin.Fairey
2008-04-08 13:24 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-04-08 14:17   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-04-09 22:53 ` Eric M. Ludlam

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