From: bojohan+news@gnu.org (Johan Bockgård)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: font-lock-keywords and lines containing comments / quotes
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:51:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d3zrpsxh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1902.1267156792.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu> writes:
> ;; syntax highlight lines that start with a "*" in the current buffer
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
> '(("^\\*\\{1\\}.*" . font-lock-keyword-face)))
The \\{1\\} is not useful.
> As soon as I type the ; or " characters, the previous part of the line
> becomes "normal" and the comment or quote appears as it should. I
> would like for the initial part of the line to remain highlighted
> though.
Use the OVERRIDE element.
(font-lock-add-keywords
nil '(("^\\*.*" 0 font-lock-keyword-face keep)))
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2010-02-26 21:51 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2010-02-26 1:57 font-lock-keywords and lines containing comments / quotes Erik Iverson
2010-02-26 15:17 ` Tim Visher
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2010-02-26 18:41 ` despen
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