Re: Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work?

["Björn Lindqvist" <bjourne@gmail.com>]

Ok so I finally almost figured it out. The key part was that you must
invert the logic so that instead of "unmarking" in
syntax-propertize-rules, you use a regexp that adds the comment
starter property "<" to the matched strings. Something is bugged with
the unmarking approach, it's like it stops looking when it found the
comment character. Anyway:

    (syntax-propertize-rules
       ("\\(^\\| \\|\t\\)\\(FOO\\|BAR\\)\\($\\| \\|\t\\)" (2 "<   ")))

Does almost exactly what I want. Amusingly enough the matching is
case-INsensitive so bAR, Bar, foo, etc matches the regexp. But it's a
small flaw which I can live with.


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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist