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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Dired - highlight the name of the directory in directory headers
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:08:51 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa7624b5-9883-4b20-82dc-e288683b9d88@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn4apps7.fsf@sebyte.me>

> I thought it would be easy to highlight the name of the directory in
> directory headers in Dired buffers.  For example:
> 
>   /home/bob/Notes:
>             ^^^^^
> My first approach was to use font-lock-add-keywords:
> 
> (font-lock-add-keywords 'dired-mode '("\\([^/]+\\):\n" . (1 'bold)))
> 
> but try as I might I could not get this to work.

FWIW, Dired+ highlights this line (with face
`diredp-dir-heading') using this font-lock entry:

 '("^  \\(.+:\\)$" 1 diredp-dir-heading) ; Directory headers

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/download/dired%2b.el



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-18 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-18 16:56 Dired - highlight the name of the directory in directory headers Sebastian Tennant
2020-11-18 18:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-18 23:08 ` Drew Adams [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-18 17:45 Sebastian Tennant

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