From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: font-lock and fontifying the few first nonempty lines in a buffer
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 17:26:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EFB8125.6090600@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rZIKa.13688$mU6.15106@newsb.telia.net
Ulf Andersson wrote:
> I'm trying to write a major mode for Emacs, that need to fontify the few
> first nonempty lines in the buffer. The mode do some other coloring in
> addition to this, and that works OK. So far I have experimented with
> `after-change-functions' and function matchers in `font-lock-keywords',
> but all I manage to do is sending my Emacs into an infinite loop deep
> down inside. I have to kill it from outside to get out of the lockup.
>
> I am using emacs 21.2.1 in a Windows 2000 environment.
>
> Has anyone already done somthing similar?
> Is there an `obvious canonical way' to do this?
> Is this downright impossible to do using `font-lock'?
If you need a regexp that matches 3 non-empty lines at the beginning of
the buffer:
interactively
programatically
-------------
---------------
\`\(.+ C-q C-j \)\{3\} "\\`\\(.+\n\\)\\{3\\}"
(If you need a regexp that matches the first 3 lines in the buffer,
replace + by *.)
If you need a regexp that matches the first 3 non-empty lines in the buffer:
interactively
programatically
-------------
---------------
M-<
(goto-char (point-min))
\(^$\)*\(.+ C-q C-q \)\{3\} "\\(^$\\)*\\(.+\n\\)\\{3\\}"
--
<a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-26 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-26 20:47 font-lock and fontifying the few first nonempty lines in a buffer Ulf Andersson
2003-06-26 23:26 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-06-27 10:43 ` Ulf Andersson
2003-06-27 12:44 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-27 14:41 ` Ulf Andersson
2003-06-27 15:15 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-27 16:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-28 1:01 ` Sandip Chitale
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