Re: fontification question

[JRancier@penntraffic.com]

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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote on 01/18/2008 
02:35:16 PM:

| JRancier@penntraffic.com wrote:
| > 
| > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote on 
| > 01/17/2008 05:51:49 PM:
| > 
| > | JRancier@penntraffic.com wrote:
| > | >
| > | > Given the following code:
| > | >
| > | > (setq font-lock-todo-face (make-face 'font-lock-todo-face))
| > | > (set-face-foreground 'font-lock-todo-face "Red")
| > | > (set-face-background 'font-lock-todo-face "Yellow")
| > | >
| > | > (font-lock-add-keywords 'jde-mode
| > | >                         '(("\\(TODO:.*$\\)" 1 font-lock-todo-face
| > | > prepend)))
| > | >
| > | > Can anyone tell me why the following is correctly fontified (in 
| > jde-mode):
| > | >
| > | >     /*
| > | >      *
| > | >      *  TODO: REMOVE DEBUG STATEMENTS
| > | >      *
| > | >      */
| > | >
| > | > And this isn't?
| > | >
| > | >     /** 01-17-08  jbr
| > | >      *
| > | >      *  TODO: REMOVE DEBUG STATEMENTS
| > | >      *
| > | >      */
| > | >
| > | > TIA,
| > | > Jeff
| > |
| > |
| > | I am surprised that the first one works. Should it really do that?
| > 
| > It does.  Can you clue me into why is 'shouldn't' work?  The 
interesting 
| > thing is that in lisp-mode and c-mode, it seems to always work fine 
... ???
| 
| 
| I must have done something stupid, please ignore my answer.

That's quite alright, you have any idea why one works and the other 
doesn't?  After playing around a bit, the two '*' in a row seem to cause 
it to fail?

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