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From: Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: case-insensitive regexp for fontlock specification
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:42:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdy6wm3u.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (raw)

Hi, I am writing a major mode for editing SPSS files.
I am following the tutorial on this webpage:
http://renormalist.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Renormalist/EmacsLanguageModeCreationTutorial

The keyword matching for font-lock should be case-insensitive. 
Is there an easy way to specify this?
At the moment I have the following (abbreviated):

(defconst spss-font-lock-keywords-1
  (list
   '("\\<\\(if\\|followed\\|by\\|some\\|other\\|keywords\\)\\>" . font-lock-keyword-face)
   "Minimal highlighting expressions for spss mode.")

which only matches lower case. I could change it like this for example:

(defconst spss-font-lock-keywords-1
  (list
   '("\\<\\([iI][fF]\\|followed\\|by\\|some\\|other\\|keywords\\)\\>" . font-lock-keyword-face)
   "Minimal highlighting expressions for spss mode.")

to make it match if, If, iF & IF, but to make that change for every keyword would take ages.

Is there a simpler way?


             reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 10:42 Joe Bloggs [this message]
2008-08-13  1:51 ` case-insensitive regexp for fontlock specification Kevin Rodgers

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