From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Subject: Re: font-lock-keywords uses only facename
Date: 05 Jun 2004 11:58:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14qpqm2az.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buo7juoezhz.fsf@mctpc71.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp>
>> Well, the "eval feature" is used extensively at many places, yes.
> Can you explain a typical usage?
I think a typical usage is when you want to supplement the regexp by
some elisp condition.
Another is when you want to not only add a face but also do a few more
things like put an overlay.
The code is evaluated right after the call to re-search-forward (thus the
match-data is available, ...).
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-05 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-03 23:48 font-lock-keywords uses only facename Alex Schroeder
2004-06-03 23:55 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-04 3:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-04 3:41 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-04 3:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-06-04 4:08 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-05 15:58 ` Stefan [this message]
2004-06-05 13:47 ` Richard Stallman
2004-06-05 23:03 ` Miles Bader
2004-06-06 22:33 ` Richard Stallman
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