Re: fontification question

From: JRancier@penntraffic.com
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fontification question
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:34:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFE5A08E7B.37B5924B-ON852573D4.004A65FE-852573D4.004A87F8@penntraffic.com> (raw)
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"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 ... 
???

| 
| Perhaps you can use hi-lock-mode?

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