From: Eric James Michael Ritz <lobbyjones@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Selective Case-Insensitive With font-lock
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:27:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513B8D29.1020409@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello all!
I am attempting to fix a problem with php-mode but ran into a
situation that illuminates the gaps in my understanding of font-lock.
So I would greatly appreciate it if someone here could point me in the
right direction. First, here is the full code in question:
https://raw.github.com/ejmr/php-mode/issue-75/php-mode.el
This is the problem I’m trying to address:
PHP treats most of its predefined constants in a case-sensitive way,
e.g. a programmer cannot substitute ‘e_error’ in place of ‘E_ERROR’
because PHP requires the all-caps version. Since the majority of
PHP’s constants have this behavior I set font-lock to disable
case-folding (search for ‘setq font-lock-defaults …’).
However, there are a small group of constants which PHP accepts in any
case. In the code these are the ‘php-magic-constants’ group. So if a
user writes ‘__dir__’ instead of ‘__DIR__’ php-mode should treat those
as the same thing in terms of syntax highlighting.
But I do not know how to tell font-lock to selectively enable
case-insensitivity for a small group of regular expressions while
enforcing case-sensitivity for the rest. I could rewrite the
expressions that need to be case-insensitive in a form like
"__[dD][iI][rR]__"
but I wanted to first ask if there is a simplier, less tedious
solution that I’m unaware of.
Thanks in advanced for any pointers and help.
--
ejmr
南無妙法蓮華經
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