From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: font-lock-keywords and lines containing comments / quotes
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:57:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B872A99.6080200@ccbr.umn.edu> (raw)
Hello,
I am trying to learn things about font-lock-mode, and am needing help
understanding the following behavior. To see what I am confused about, create a
buffer in emacs-lisp mode (or just use *scratch*) and define the following:
;; syntax highlight lines that start with a "*" in the current buffer
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("^\\*\\{1\\}.*" . font-lock-keyword-face)))
Now, with the above defined, paste (or type out to see the effect in action) the
following lines starting with * in the same buffer, which will demonstrate what
I would like to achieve, and what is going wrong...
* this is highlighted, great!
* so is this, until I type a ; comment
* similiar here, until I type a "quote"
As soon as I type the ; or " characters, the previous part of the line becomes
"normal" and the comment or quote appears as it should. I would like for the
initial part of the line to remain highlighted though.
Obviously I am missing something simple(?) here, but I am having a hard time
figuring out how the typical major-modes (e.g., emacs-lisp) handle this case.
Any hints?
Hopefully this was clear! I am using Emacs 23 under Linux.
Best Regards,
Erik Iverson
next reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 1:57 UTC|newest]
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2010-02-26 1:57 Erik Iverson [this message]
2010-02-26 15:17 ` font-lock-keywords and lines containing comments / quotes Tim Visher
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2010-02-26 18:41 ` despen
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2010-02-26 21:51 ` Johan Bockgård
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