From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: multi-line highlighting
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:00:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rd0uqun.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87lfb8bje9.fsf@yandex.com
> I have in an org-mode file a need to color the face of the string
> between 'Alpha:' and a period. To achieve this I have
>
> #+begin_src elisp
> (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
> '(("\\(Alpha:\\)\\([^\n\r\t]+\\)\\(.\\)"
^^^
This is not the regexp for a "period".
Also this regexp will clearly not match multiple lines since you
explicitly exclude \n from the matched chars.
> as a local variable, but to no avail. I have searched online, but all
> the examples I've found are based on adding keywords, which is not what
> I want. I'm probably overlooking something simple.
Have you looked at the ELisp reference manual that comes with your Emacs?
It has a section called "Font Lock Multiline".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-28 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-28 10:01 multi-line highlighting Colin Baxter
2021-02-28 10:13 ` Colin Baxter
2021-02-28 12:34 ` Colin Baxter
2021-02-28 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-02-28 17:57 ` Colin Baxter
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