Re: Allowing spaces in the regexp for outlines

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
> From: "Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Allowing spaces in the regexp for outlines
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> > Have made a regexp for outlines to use ';;;' followed by 'H' and a number.
> >
> > I would like to allow any number of spaces between the ';;;' and the letter 'H'.
> > How can I change the regexp to allow such a capability ?
>
> Why?

There is already the functionality for changing the font-lock for outline-minor-mode.
So why not !  It is not so easy to do though.  Because managing outlines in a buffer
is valuable for almost everybody, it would help for there to me clear explanation
of what has to be done with actual examples.  Good for this would be in the Introduction
to Emacs Lisp Programming.

> ELisp already has a set convention for outlining, where `;;;` is
> a top-level heading, then `;;;;` is a subheading, `;;;;;` is
> a subsubheading, etc...
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>         Stefan
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