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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make font lock work with comments?
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:29:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4o9qfw5t.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8649bced-1240-483b-ba41-9bc581938275@t8g2000prh.googlegroups.com

> Im hacking on an apl mode
>  (let ((st (make-syntax-table))
>         (comment-char ?\x235d))
> :
> :
>  (modify-syntax-entry comment-char "<" st)

> In other words emacs sees this as a comment-type char (similar to what
> it says for semicolon in elisp buffers

> And yet in an elisp buffer the ; to EOL is red
> but here it is not.

> Any clues?

How do you setup font-lock-defaults?  I.e. is the KEYWORDS-ONLY entry
set to t by any chance?


        Stefan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-03  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-29  9:50 How to make font lock work with comments? rusi
2010-12-30  8:43 ` Elena
2010-12-30 21:27   ` Tim X
2010-12-30 14:09 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-30 17:28   ` rusi
2010-12-30 18:35     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-01-03  4:28   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-03  4:29 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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