Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 02:42:45 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> 
> I have seen that emacs-lisp-mode allows the highlighting of some specially formatted comments using strings enclosed by single quotes 'this-thing'.  This can be very useful beyond its intended use (highlighting function and variable names).  
> 
> For instance, I can use this to highlight the first comment with a different colour from the rest of the comments. 
> 
> But this special highlighting only works for function and variables names without spaces.  
> 
> So I cannot do the following to get 'A Remark here' highlighted in a different colour.
> 
> ;; 'A Remark here'   
> ;; Some comment here
> ;; Another comment here
> ;; You are a hero
> 
> Can the use of '' be extended so I can use the highlighting more generally as described.  Or perhaps have an additional highlighting for more general things, separate from function and variable names.

You can extend it if you want, but we won't, because that was
specifically intended to highlight symbols, not arbitrary text.