From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Turning comments into hyperlinks Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:28:28 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87txx5gn3n.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342621822 29651 80.91.229.3 (18 Jul 2012 14:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:30:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 18 16:30:20 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SrVGa-0001Xm-41 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:30:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrVGZ-0001KG-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:30:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: individual.net eqSmeBXQaFfzOG2i0UFekwkujStVhWxuIMbCupBPGVOo9SEa7wQWEo+z6YjJxUcFrc Cancel-Lock: sha1:ODFiNTFjZWJlZGJmODYwMzAyZDA4NDFhMTRiYmRjYmJlMzQ4MTBkZg== sha1:UnZmoiCwkFagDDGCaqmax6RArSE= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193542 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85917 Archived-At: Sohail Somani writes: > Greetings Earthlings! > > I have come across an inconvenience which I would like to resolve. I > am working on a codebase which has the following patterns throughout > the code: > > // JIRA 12312 > // ISSUE 12312 > // KEY-12312 > > What I would like to do is match these patterns and turn them into > hyperlinks that open in the browser. So for example, I might turn > KEY-12312 into a hyperlink to http://jira.myhomies.com/KEY-12312 but > continue to display the original text. > > How would I accomplish this with cc-mode or emacs in general? Since those patterns seem to be safely recognizable with regular expressions, you can use font-locking to identify them and substitute with with an hyperlink button. The font-lock keyword definition would use compose-region to overlay the text with a button which action would browse the url you want. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.