Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

[Tim Johnson]

Hello:
The following form is used to provide syntax highlighting for
a 'lisp variant. The regex expression for 'font-lock-string-face
doesn't work. The other forms do work as expected.
(cond (running-xemacs)  ;; Xemacs doesn't have 'font-lock-add-keywords
  (t
    (make-local-variable 'lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj)
    (defvar newlisp-font-lock-keywords-tj  ;; faces defined in 'extra-faces
    (list
      (list tj-newlisp-user-keywords '1 'font-lock-user-keyword-face)
      (list tj-newlisp-user-lib-keywords '1 'font-lock-user-lib-face)
      (list tj-newlisp-constant-keywords '1 'font-lock-constant-face)
      '("\\[text\\][^\"]*[.]*[^\"]*\\[/text\\]" 1 font-lock-string-face t) ;; This one doesn't work
      ) "Additional keywords and groups for lisp-mode")))
;; .......

The regex is meant to highlight the delimiters "[text]" & "[/text]" and
everything between (multi-line string literal). The regex itself was tested with re-builder, seems
to work there. 

Can anyone tell me what else I need to do here? 

TIA
tim

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Re: Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

[Tim Johnson]

* Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> [060211 22:14]:
> Hello:
> The following form is used to provide syntax highlighting for
> a 'lisp variant. The regex expression for 'font-lock-string-face
> doesn't work. The other forms do work as expected.
> (cond (running-xemacs)  ;; Xemacs doesn't have 'font-lock-add-keywords
>   (t
>     (make-local-variable 'lisp-font-lock-keywords-tj)
>     (defvar newlisp-font-lock-keywords-tj  ;; faces defined in 'extra-faces
>     (list
>       (list tj-newlisp-user-keywords '1 'font-lock-user-keyword-face)
>       (list tj-newlisp-user-lib-keywords '1 'font-lock-user-lib-face)
>       (list tj-newlisp-constant-keywords '1 'font-lock-constant-face)
>       '("\\[text\\][^\"]*[.]*[^\"]*\\[/text\\]" 1 font-lock-string-face t) ;; This one doesn't work
>       ) "Additional keywords and groups for lisp-mode")))
> ;; .......
> 
> The regex is meant to highlight the delimiters "[text]" & "[/text]" and
> everything between (multi-line string literal). The regex itself was tested with re-builder, seems
> to work there. 
> 
> Can anyone tell me what else I need to do here? 
 
  Okay. I fixed this one. 
  [^#]\\(\\[text\\][^{}]*\\[/text\\]\\) 
  is the regex that I need. 
  But comments are still welcome...
  tim


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Re: Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

[Kevin Rodgers]

Tim Johnson wrote:
>   Okay. I fixed this one. 
>   [^#]\\(\\[text\\][^{}]*\\[/text\\]\\) 
>   is the regex that I need. 
>   But comments are still welcome...

Instead of:

(cond (running-xemacs)  ;; Xemacs doesn't have 'font-lock-add-keywords
       (t ...))

Do this:

(when (fboundp 'font-lock-add-keywords)
   ...)

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Kevin Rodgers

Re: Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

[Stefan Monnier]

>   Okay. I fixed this one. 
>   [^#]\\(\\[text\\][^{}]*\\[/text\\]\\) 
>   is the regex that I need. 
>   But comments are still welcome...

Better use font-lock-syntactic-keywords to mark [text] and [/text] as string
starter and string ender respectively.  At least, if multi-line strings
are important.


        Stefan

Re: Regex Expression for syntax highlight between delimiters

[Tim Johnson]

* Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [060212 12:37]:
> >   Okay. I fixed this one. 
> >   [^#]\\(\\[text\\][^{}]*\\[/text\\]\\) 
> >   is the regex that I need. 
> >   But comments are still welcome...
> 
> Better use font-lock-syntactic-keywords to mark [text] and [/text] as string
> starter and string ender respectively.  At least, if multi-line strings
> are important.
 
  They are. Will do.
  Thanks Stefan.
  tj

> 
>         Stefan
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