From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:58:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoij7ih2a0au.fsf@remote2.student.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 13ri26n4913br9a@news.supernews.com
Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> writes:
> I'm using the following regex subexpression:
> "\\<\\("
> As the left-hand word boundary for syntax highlighting in
> a lisp-style programming language.
>
> "\\(" adds the opening parenthesis as a word boundary.
That doesn't make sense.
> I would like to add the colon (':') as an additional word
> boundary character.
> The subexpressions:
> "\\<\\(:" and "\\<\\(\\:" don't seem to work.
> In addition I have the following entry:
> (?: . "w") to the syntax table.
> Could someone advise me on how to make this work correctly.
Note that font-lock can use a different syntax table than the mode's
ordinary syntax table.
> On a related note, I believe that there is an emacs add-on that
> allows the user to test elisp regexes, but for the life of me,
> I can't remember where to find it.
M-x re-builder or
regex-tool.el
--
Johan Bockgård
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 4:27 Adding a colon as a word boundary for syntax highlighting Tim Johnson
2008-02-18 12:58 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2008-02-18 16:00 ` Tim Johnson
2008-02-18 16:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 19:23 ` Tim Johnson
2008-02-20 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-20 20:37 ` Tim Johnson
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