From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font lock question
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:46:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmtv1ivd3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8fhwyai.fsf@fastmail.fm> (Joost Kremers's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:09:41 +0100")
>> But be aware that these approaches still won't work well if the [...]
>> thing can span multiple lines.
> Hmm, I'm afraid that is indeed possible. Perhaps I'll keep it simple and only
> font-lock the `B` part, since it can't contain any spaces and is fairly easy to
> do.
Can there be [...] without any `aBc`s in them and which need to be
font-lock differently?
If not (and if it shouldn't span too many lines), then I think
a MATCH-ANCHORED that just matches on the opening "[" and then uses the
PRE-MATCH-FORM to return the position of the matching "]" should work
acceptably, as long as you use `font-lock-multiline`.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 9:40 Font lock question Joost Kremers
2021-03-17 13:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-17 13:46 ` Joost Kremers
2021-03-17 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-17 16:09 ` Joost Kremers
2021-03-17 16:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-03-18 19:41 ` Joost Kremers
2021-03-17 16:31 ` Harald Jörg
2021-03-18 19:53 ` Joost Kremers
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2008-05-28 10:34 Shaun Johnson
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