From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adjusting string font-locking to not span multiple lines
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzgy47go.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ad23251f-7631-4d0d-8f41-ea4bb6093e63@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Nordlöw wrote:
> On 16 Maj, 13:09, David Hansen <david.han...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 03:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Nordlöw wrote:
>>
>> > I would like to override the behaviour for string highlighting in
>> > lines such as the following.
>>
>> > 0 string \xad6" AMGC archive data
>>
>> > such that the the whole pattern
>> > \xad6"
>> > is highlighted in the font-lock-constant-face
>>
>> If double quotes aren't used as string delimiters at all, just change
>> the syntax of the double quote character. Otherwise you have to use
>> font-lock-syntactic-keywords to overwrite the syntax-table.
>
> How do I "just change the syntax of the double quote character"?
This is a very good tutorial on writing an emacs major mode. Check the
paragraph "Syntax table modifications":
http://two-wugs.net/emacs/mode-tutorial.html
Note that modifying the syntax-table also affects other parts of emacs
behavior (e.g. forward/backward-sexp). But from above example this is
probably what you want.
David
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2008-05-16 10:35 Adjusting string font-locking to not span multiple lines Nordlöw
2008-05-16 11:09 ` David Hansen
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2008-05-16 13:39 ` Nordlöw
2008-05-16 15:03 ` David Hansen [this message]
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