From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special hilighting for comments Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:12:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87lenfeqio.fsf@mbork.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17746"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 29.0.50 Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor To: Heime Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 07:13:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p3t6f-0004Rj-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3t69-0008PS-Iz; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:12:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3t66-0008P3-TY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p3t64-0005tm-Vi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565577F74DB; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:12:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CZqQQUUk5FFG; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:12:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (178235147188.dynamic-3-poz-k-0-1-0.vectranet.pl [178.235.147.188]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F1796CE58A5; Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:12:15 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=195.110.48.8; envelope-from=mbork@mbork.pl; helo=mail.mojserwer.eu X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141544 Archived-At: On 2022-12-10, at 03:42, Heime 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, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl