From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font-lock regexp for complementary keywords Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:15:48 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87k663nduk.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153844252 31636 80.91.229.2 (25 Jul 2006 16:17:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 25 18:17:31 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Paq-0002Ac-T4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Paq-0000zF-9L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Pac-0000ux-MV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Pab-0000sy-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5Pab-0000sa-9V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G5Pbw-0004c9-PR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:18:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G5PaJ-00022x-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:16:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:16:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:16:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <87k663nduk.fsf@hans.local.net> 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:36219 Archived-At: Dieter Wilhelm wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to fontify Ansys keywords. The solver accepts unique short > forms of the command keywords, the rest is ignored. For example the > uniqe part of `/filname' is `/fil' and I'd like to fontify > > /fil and > /filn and > /filna and > /filnam and > /filname and > > as well. The only idea I got so far is to do it in 5 separate > font-lock statements: > > \\(/fil\\) 1 font-lock... > /fil\\(n\\) 1 fon... > /filn\\(a\\) 1 ... > /filna\\(m\\) 1 ... > /filnam\\(e\\) 1 ... Why are you grouping and highlighting either "/fil" or the last letter? > Very ugly and inefficient, isn't it? > Originally I thought that something like this > > /fil\\(n\\|na\\|nam\\|name\\) > > would work but rexexp-bulider doesn't show any matches for the > complementing alternatives. "/fil\\(n\\(a\\(me?\\)?\\)?\\)?\\>" 0 font-lock... -- Kevin