From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem when optimizing font-lock-keywords
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:26:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2iqrlhc7h.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86864f7e-d948-4d9c-b554-589cb1f9b660@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> ("Nordlöw"'s message of "Tue\, 21 Oct 2008 07\:06\:13 -0700 \(PDT\)")
Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to optimize my extra calls to font-lock-add-keywords() by
> concatenating the MATCHERs like follows:
>
> (defun pnw-fancy/sh-mode-font-locking ()
> "Fancy Shell Script Syntax Highlighting."
> (font-lock-add-keywords
> nil
> (list
> (cons (concat "\\((\\|)\\)" "?"
> "\\(\\[\\|]\\|{\\|}\\)" "?"
> "\\(,\\|;\\)")
> '((1 'font-lock-parens-face keep)
> (2 'font-lock-braces-face keep)
> (3 'font-lock-separator-face keep)))
> )
> t))
> (add-hook 'sh-mode-hook 'pnw-fancy/sh-mode-font-locking t)
>
> I believe this idea is used in emacs-lisp-mode() but I can't make it
> work --- I get the error:
> Error during redisplay: (error No match 1 in highlight (1 (quote font-
> lock-parens-face) keep)) [5 times]
>
> What have I missed?
I think all groups must be matched successfully or accessing them will
throw an error. That isn't the case if the ? operator wasn't successful.
So instead of
"\\( (\\|) \\)?"
do:
"\\( \\(:? (\\|) \\)? \\)"
(spaces added for readability)
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
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2008-10-21 14:06 Problem when optimizing font-lock-keywords Nordlöw
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