From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font lock for #if 0 ... #endif Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:24:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181428936 15994 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2007 22:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 22:42:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 00:42:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hx9dO-0000pc-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:42:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hx9dO-0005oJ-GM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:42:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:24:30 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:eJk7SPcoS5ODRS6iOv7r9a/ZqOE= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-5MYsG79fkm6l63zy+Et99X0c8iAUTP79Vdsl6+F0YTJRjnBGFiV3uVHdM3eg8OknN3/SIRPr6PwLGEP!LkT+L0pWjJTvm0bWnWhbezgI8ShwW2++Hqn8rOZCScLkwm0WLWrvMFpoD2ujLR3KmbVgp2g9+KdW!PpLPPvB3GIZVCc2KNw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149234 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:44822 Archived-At: >> Sometimes in my C routines, I do >> >> #if 0 >> >> #endif >> >> to temporarily skip compilation of code (mostly for debugging >> purposes). >> >> How can I change fontlock to recolor the region to something obvious? > I won't recommend doing that in font-lock - the region could be too > large to be handled efficiently. Actually, you may be able to get something efficient by placing a "comment-fence" syntax on those two elements from c-font-lock-syntactic-keywords. But this can be tricky. Stefan