On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 06:59:32AM +0000, Heime wrote:
> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 6:54 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 02:37:38AM +0000, Heime wrote:
> > 
> > > Would you know the problem with the following regexp
> > > 
> > > "^;; \\[.+\\].*$"
> > > 
> > > It fails to match
> > > 
> > > ;; [something] other things
> > 
> > 
> > Worksforme. At least if the first semicolon is actually at the
> > start of a line, that is.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > --
> > t
> 
> Yes it works.  I am trying to use subexp in highlight-regexp.
> To match "^;; \\[.+\\].*$" but highlight only the "\\[.+\\]" part.

Aha. Read again the documentation string of `hightlight-regexp'.
Is there any part in there you don't understand? What about
SUBEXP?

Cheers
-- 
t