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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Syntax highlighting keywords starting with #
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:12:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdatyale.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1131019860.252451.281450@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

> How do I do that? I have a script language where all the keywords start
> with #. I would like to highlight these. The regexp #[A-Z] does not
> work. The regexp [R#][A-Z]* will highlight "words" like RA, RAB, RZZ
> etc, but not #A or anything else starting with #.

> This does not work:

> (defconst psc-font-lock-keywords
>   (list
>    '("\\<[#R][A-Z]*\\>" . font-lock-builtin-face)
>    '("\\('\\w*'\\)" . font-lock-variable-name-face))

No wonder: this only defines a variable.  Where is this variable used?


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-03 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-03 12:11 Syntax highlighting keywords starting with # frodetj
2005-11-03 16:05 ` frodetj
2005-11-03 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-11-03 19:55   ` frodetj
2005-11-04  3:43     ` Ian Zimmerman
     [not found]     ` <mailman.13898.1131075812.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-11-04 11:27       ` Frode
2005-11-22 19:53         ` Stefan Monnier

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