Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2022-12-10, at 03:42, Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen that emacs-lisp-mode allows the highlighting of some specially formatted comments using strings enclosed by single quotes 'this-thing'.  This can be very useful beyond its intended use (highlighting function and variable names).  
>
> For instance, I can use this to highlight the first comment with a different colour from the rest of the comments. 
>
> But this special highlighting only works for function and variables names without spaces.  
>
> So I cannot do the following to get 'A Remark here' highlighted in a different colour.
>
> ;; 'A Remark here'   
> ;; Some comment here
> ;; Another comment here
> ;; You are a hero
>
> Can the use of '' be extended so I can use the highlighting more generally as described.  Or perhaps have an additional highlighting for more general things, separate from function and variable names.

Try M-s h C-h.

Hth,

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