From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Polite Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Getting started with syntax highlighting. Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:33:41 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1130186106 15019 80.91.229.2 (24 Oct 2005 20:35:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:35:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 22:35:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EU910-0006TD-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:33:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EU90z-0001zF-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EU90q-0001z0-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EU90p-0001yo-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EU90p-0001yl-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.162.205] (helo=zproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EU90p-0004xQ-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 34so567248nzf for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:33:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=VFKGKV8B+MM+7bYeD+KjoeaoRq6v0pPV17u/U7t3eutzdUGeY3CxOKih3bF85yEpCRj5DQi5hhHpj87XZCUePGMurZmHKYmed+s4SK3+cSEBK86KxbviDyfGSjrdyfuCe5irAPUEVC569dR4XND7SbzVP+WTt+1M/ITmKMyyPvI= Original-Received: by 10.36.227.5 with SMTP id z5mr2312112nzg; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.36.59.6 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:33:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30534 Archived-At: Hi. I want get into syntax highlighting. What I want to do is grey out all text that matches the regular expression "{id:\d+}. Sounds pretty basic right? But the documentation leaves me puzzled. Anybody out got a simple example to get me started? alex -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source