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 23:28:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3oefw8o.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bp43nyha.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
> Font locking is a tricky matter.
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil
> '(("⍝.*" 0 font-lock-comment-face prepend)
> ("[^\\]\"\\([^\"\\]*\\|\\.\\)\"" 0 font-lock-string-face prepend)))
Bad idea: font-lock normally uses syntax-tables for comments and
strings, so unless you *really* can't make it work with syntax-table,
you shouldn't do it via font-lock-keywords.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-03 4:28 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 [this message]
2011-01-03 4:29 ` Stefan Monnier
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