From: "Björn Lindqvist" <bjourne@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 01:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALG+76evcuOETYf0Gf2NDSekprJozfCDXCr80m6xrTCcOgsD1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7frkzk2q.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
2015-06-03 21:11 GMT+02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> 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:
>
> The answer there gives you the technique to use. AFAICT you only need
> to adjust the regexp he used in exmark-syntax-propertize.
>
> You'll want to read about syntax-tables in the Elisp manual to
> understand what the "_" means in that function (for a quick
> refresher on which char means what, C-h f modify-syntax-entry RET is
> what I use, but you first need to read the Elisp reference to really
> understand how that works).
If you think you know what it should be changed to, can you tell me?
I've tried a dozen different permutations of the regexp and none of
them produces the desired result. I've also read the syntactic
font-lock and syntax table sections of the manual several times and I
still don't get it. (sorry for the double mail)
--
mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist
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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 [this message]
[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
2015-06-03 16:46 Björn Lindqvist
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