From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired - highlight the name of the directory in directory headers Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:42:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87r1oqy09y.fsf@web.de> References: <87pn4apps7.fsf@sebyte.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26388"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4tjNZwjowZS2rVwNe1EkR42Qhls= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 19:52:05 2020 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 1kfSYn-0006ll-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:52:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57760 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfSYm-0006p3-1Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:52:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60976) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfSPl-0008L8-7c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:39820 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kfSPi-000519-Se for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:42:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kfSPe-0005R7-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:42:38 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/18 13:30:54 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:125338 Archived-At: Sebastian Tennant writes: > Hello all, > > I thought it would be easy to highlight the name of the directory in > directory headers in Dired buffers. For example: > > /home/bob/Notes: > ^^^^^ > My first approach was to use font-lock-add-keywords: > > (font-lock-add-keywords 'dired-mode '("\\([^/]+\\):\n" . (1 'bold))) > > but try as I might I could not get this to work. One problem with your code is that `font-lock-add-keywords' expects a _list_ of keywords. I think it's also better to match the end of the line instead of the newline char. Dired uses this: (list dired-subdir-regexp '(1 dired-header-face)) I think it's best to start with that. It has the advantage that it doesn't accidentally match file names including a colon. Michael.