comment delimiter in syntax table

comment delimiter in syntax table

[carlos.conde]

Hi all,

I'm writing a major mode for a script language and I need to declare in the 
syntax table the comment delimiters. However, these comment delimiters are
4 character long: "<*--" to start comment, "--*>" to end comment, and it 
seems that syntax table only accepts 2 char long comment delimiters (like
"/*" and "*/"). If I use font-lock methods, I can't have multi line comment
hilighting...

Is there a way to declare longer comment delimiters in the syntax table ??

thanks.

Re: comment delimiter in syntax table

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>>> "carlos" == carlos conde <carlos.conde@double-c.fr> writes:
> Is there a way to declare longer comment delimiters in the syntax table ??

No.  The best solution right now is to use font-lock-syntactic-keywords:

  (defvar foo-font-lock-syntactic-keywords
    '(("\\(<\\)\\*--" (1 "<"))
      ("--\\*\\(>\\)" (1 ">"))))


-- Stefan

Re: comment delimiter in syntax table

[carlos.conde]

mmm ... sounds good ! I'll give it a try... thanks a lot for the tip !

Re: comment delimiter in syntax table

[carlos.conde]

it works perfectly !! thanks, I've never knew that font-lock could do 
such things... I'll read the doc better now...