* comment delimiter in syntax table @ 2003-06-04 13:35 carlos.conde 2003-06-04 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: carlos.conde @ 2003-06-04 13:35 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi all, I'm writing a major mode for a script language and I need to declare in the syntax table the comment delimiters. However, these comment delimiters are 4 character long: "<*--" to start comment, "--*>" to end comment, and it seems that syntax table only accepts 2 char long comment delimiters (like "/*" and "*/"). If I use font-lock methods, I can't have multi line comment hilighting... Is there a way to declare longer comment delimiters in the syntax table ?? thanks. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: comment delimiter in syntax table 2003-06-04 13:35 comment delimiter in syntax table carlos.conde @ 2003-06-04 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier 2003-06-04 21:07 ` carlos.conde 2003-06-04 21:42 ` carlos.conde 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2003-06-04 16:10 UTC (permalink / raw) >>>>> "carlos" == carlos conde <carlos.conde@double-c.fr> writes: > Is there a way to declare longer comment delimiters in the syntax table ?? No. The best solution right now is to use font-lock-syntactic-keywords: (defvar foo-font-lock-syntactic-keywords '(("\\(<\\)\\*--" (1 "<")) ("--\\*\\(>\\)" (1 ">")))) -- Stefan ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: comment delimiter in syntax table 2003-06-04 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier @ 2003-06-04 21:07 ` carlos.conde 2003-06-04 21:42 ` carlos.conde 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: carlos.conde @ 2003-06-04 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw) mmm ... sounds good ! I'll give it a try... thanks a lot for the tip ! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: comment delimiter in syntax table 2003-06-04 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier 2003-06-04 21:07 ` carlos.conde @ 2003-06-04 21:42 ` carlos.conde 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: carlos.conde @ 2003-06-04 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw) it works perfectly !! thanks, I've never knew that font-lock could do such things... I'll read the doc better now... ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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