From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: identifiing strings and comments in program source files (to skip them over)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:01:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wvkanam.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 11laoqnlgqlxp.80dh81qx3xik.dlg@40tude.net
> I have a mode what uses font-lock-mode and highlights everything nicely. I
> think I could use this (= the face set by font-lock-mode) for identifiing
> if e.g. a search stopped in a string or comment. (I know font-lock-mode
> must be enabled for this.) This way I could omit reparsing the buffer (with
> parse-partial-sexp) e.g. in a function what searches something "real" (=
> strings and comments should be skipped).
You can use this (I've used it in several occasions).
In Emacs-CVS you can also use syntax-ppss which is like parse-partial-sexp
except it does caching (and it's used by font-lock so the cache is already
filled by the font-lock activity).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-26 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-25 21:14 identifiing strings and comments in program source files (to skip them over) Peter Tury
2006-04-26 3:53 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2006-04-26 8:04 ` Peter Tury
2006-04-26 6:01 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-04-26 8:06 ` Peter Tury
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2006-04-26 6:38 martin rudalics
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2006-04-26 19:05 ` Peter Tury
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