From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: multi-line highlighting Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:01:50 +0000 Message-ID: <87lfb8bje9.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33055"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:RXYd3pC8nWTySCm0MrasILl5ocQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 11:02:24 2021 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 1lGIu7-0008We-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:02:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54488 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGIu6-00014X-TH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:02:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGItm-00014H-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44352) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lGItk-00086u-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 05:02:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lGIti-00088g-Gp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2021 11:01:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Face: BHjiJOg/Qmj'BQgsAKL@])L)e62P)C"Y=6T Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAGQAAAAeBAMAAAAodabAAAAAB3RJTUUH1wQdAAY04/L8hgAA AAlwSFlzAAAewQAAHsEBw2lUUwAAAARnQU1BAACxjwv8YQUAAAASUExURc7OzpwAAAAAAP////8A AGNj/2aqqTQAAAA8SURBVHjaYzA2NnEBAmdj01D8wNgYpM7F2JiBgYFREAgEGJiU8AMGBpA6QaCG UVtGbRm1ZdSWUVsGjS0Aq20lJnMawnkAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128311 Archived-At: Hello, I have in an org-mode file a need to color the face of the string between 'Alpha:' and a period. To achieve this I have #+begin_src elisp (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (font-lock-add-keywords nil '(("\\(Alpha:\\)\\([^\n\r\t]+\\)\\(.\\)" (1 font-lock-builtin-face) ;; Face for 'Alpha:'. (2 font-lock-doc-face) ;; Subsequent face))))) #+end_src This works well. 'Alpha:' is in font-lock-builtin-face and the rest of the line until the period is in font-lock-doc-face. Occasionally, unfortunately, the line runs over to a "new line" - and of course the face locking 2 is lost on the new line. How can I maintain the font locking 2 for two or maybe three lines? I have tried inserting a '\n' in the regexp and a #+begin_src elisp eval: (set (make-local-variable 'font-lock-multiline) t) #+end_src as a local variable, but to no avail. I have searched online, but all the examples I've found are based on adding keywords, which is not what I want. I'm probably overlooking something simple. I would be grateful for pointers as to where to look. Best wishes, Colin Baxter.