From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: jan <rtm443x@googlemail.com>, 41185@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41185: highlight-regexp not working properly for multiline-matching regexps
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 19:11:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgvt1ygs.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ke1bu1d.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:37:02 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> I think you must read the original report further, where there is a text
> example with "endif" for that highlighting fails. AFAICT the complaint
> is about multi-line matches not being highlighted.
>
> I think `highlight-regexp' is not able to highlight multiline
> stuff, but the docstring doesn't tell anything about this.
It is being highlit, but not reliably, I see. If you paste the test
cases in, they are highlit, but not if you type them in (or paste them
in in steps)...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-13 17:11 UTC|newest]
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2020-05-11 11:24 bug#41185: highlight-regexp not working properly jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-11 22:55 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-13 11:37 ` bug#41185: highlight-regexp not working properly for multiline-matching regexps Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-13 16:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-13 17:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-06-15 13:25 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-06-15 23:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-06-16 5:20 ` jan via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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