From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: multiline font-lock questions Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:09 -0500 Message-ID: <878xi8d30i.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> References: <87wt5udkgq.fsf@pereiro.luannocracy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163874474 29637 80.91.229.2 (18 Nov 2006 18:27:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 18 19:27:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlUut-0004HT-Gi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:27:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlUus-00052t-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlUuO-0004q8-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GlUuN-0004pG-C9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GlUuN-0004pB-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [72.32.140.231] (helo=boost-consulting.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GlUuL-0007AJ-8c; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from pereiro.luannocracy.com.boost-consulting.com (216-15-125-177.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com [216.15.125.177]) (authenticated bits=0) by boost-consulting.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAIIRQD0088070 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 18 Nov 2006 18:27:27 GMT (envelope-from dave@boost-consulting.com) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat\, 18 Nov 2006 04\:12\:16 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62430 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I posted some questions about how to get multiline font-lock working > in gmane.emacs.help because I wasn't sure that they would be deemed > appropriate here. If they belong here instead, please let me know. > > Can you try to adapt them for use in the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual? For the most part, I doubt it; they're questions, not answers. There were a couple of suggestions about clarifications that could be made to the manual, but someone who knows which of the possible ambiguous meanings is correct needs to do that :). There is one thing I can say: the manual says that "^" only works at the beginning of a regexp and after "\\(" and "\\|", but it also works after "\\(?:". The same goes for "$". -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com