From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multi-line highlighting Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:00:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87lfb8bje9.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12505"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:V8CmnS26H4CEzelHUBSQD3S7TkU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 18:19:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGPjR-000367-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 18:19:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43978 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGPjQ-0004ut-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:19:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGPbN-00072L-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53284) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGPb5-0004dI-KW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 12:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGOUw-0005wZ-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:00:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128314 Archived-At: > 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