From: "Björn Lindqvist" <bjourne@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work?
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:46:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALG+76caZgLOKGTfH98XOOtL3GHRw7=xcRwZQdKo2181kvz9xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello emacs,
I have a really complicated font-locking problem I'm trying to solve
for a major mode. It's like I've tried everything but nothing
works. Here is the question I asked on Stack Overflow and got some
help with but it didn't go all the way:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29973458/avoid-font-locking-interfering-inside-of-comments
I want to font-lock to understand that two short strings, e.g FOO and
BAR are the comment tokens. The tokens themselves should be
font-locked as comments and everything following them until the end of
line should also be comments.
The problem is that the strings only start comments if they are
free-standing tokens. So on these four lines there are comments:
random code FOO random comment
stuff BAR comment "with stuff"
BAR FOO BAR
FOO
On these four lines there are NO comments:
FOObar random come
BARFOO random code
random code xyFOOzw
random code "with string FOO " etc ...
Because the comment tokens are not separate. I'm suspecting that I've
found a limitation in emacs font-locking and that this is impossible
to get completely right. I'd love to be proven wrong though. :)
--
mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist
next reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 16:46 Björn Lindqvist [this message]
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2015-06-03 19:11 ` Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work? Stefan Monnier
2015-06-03 23:37 ` Björn Lindqvist
[not found] ` <mailman.4244.1433374628.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-04 3:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 11:10 ` Björn Lindqvist
[not found] ` <mailman.4276.1433416248.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-04 22:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-05 3:29 ` Björn Lindqvist
2015-06-05 6:53 ` tomas
2015-06-05 19:37 ` Björn Lindqvist
2015-06-07 3:58 ` Björn Lindqvist
2015-06-07 11:34 ` tomas
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