From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: identifiing strings and comments in program source files (to skip them over) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:01:53 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <871wvkanam.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <11laoqnlgqlxp.80dh81qx3xik.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146033665 3372 80.91.229.2 (26 Apr 2006 06:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 08:41:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYdht-0001NZ-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYdht-0005dk-Bp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:41:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:03L95e6LPonFtxYmG2i+cRBYuqA= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.55.144.118 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1146031313 70.55.144.118 (Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:01:53 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:01:53 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:139043 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:34664 Archived-At: > 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