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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Cc: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>,
	help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Introducing face in comments for various modes
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:24:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-f6aa16ba-53e8-4fc8-8912-71f0dbce0fb6-1670927090559@3c-app-mailcom-bs16> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d77f749-9a47-3a87-40d0-7c7de73b64e7@gmail.com>


> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 10:05 PM
> From: "Thibaut Verron" <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
> To: "Heime" <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Introducing face in comments for various modes
>
> On 13/12/2022 10:46, Heime wrote:
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > On Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 at 9:35 AM, Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 13/12/2022 09:30, Heime wrote:
> >>
> >>> ------- Original Message -------
> >>> On Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 at 8:04 AM, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> ------- Original Message -------
> >>>> On Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 at 7:52 AM, Jean Louis bugs@gnu.support wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Heime, I like the idea of highlighting comments, though I do it this
> >>>>> way to specify (syntax comment-start) as that works for multiple
> >>>>> modes.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ; one
> >>>>> ;; two
> >>>>> ;;; three
> >>>>> ;;;; and more
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ;;; Highlighting comments
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (setq rcd-regexp-comment (rx line-start
> >>>>> (one-or-more (syntax comment-start))
> >>>>> (one-or-more space)
> >>>>> (group (one-or-more not-newline))
> >>>>> line-end))
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ;; (highlight-regexp regexp nil 1)
> >>>>> ;; (unhighlight-regexp regexp)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Jean
> >>>>> I would like to introduce (syntax comment-start) in place
> >>>>> of ";;" in "^;;\s+\\[.+\\].*$".
> >>
> >> It's not something you can "introduce" in your regexp, it only makes
> >> sense within the context of a regexp built with rx:
> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Rx-Notation.html
> >>
> >> Rewriting your regexp as an rx regexp would not be too difficult if you
> >> want to go that route, Jean's example is a good template.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, as an approximation of that feature, you could built your
> >> regex string using the value of the variable comment-start ( ";" in
> >> emacs-lisp-mode) instead of hardcoding ;; .
> > How can one specify two comment characters next to each other?
> 
> Using the variable, the same way you would normally do for a regexp, by 
> putting \{2\} after the matched regexp.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> ELISP> (format "\\(%s\\)\\{2\\}" comment-start)
> "\\(;\\)\\{2\\}"
> 
> (don't trust me for the number of escape characters)
> 
> But I don't think it's really what you want: for example, in a mode 
> where comment-start is "# " (e.g. org or python), this will match "# # " 
> but not "##".

It is unfortunate that org and python demand a space after #
 
> Using the syntax table is better here, as the character # alone has the 
> syntax of a comment-start.
> 
> I had forgotten about the simplest option, that is the regexp equivalent 
> of the rx syntax: \s< in a regexp will match exactly a character with 
> the syntax of a comment-start.
> 
> So: "\s<\{2\}" should be exactly what you want (at least in languages 
> where comments start with a single character).
 



  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13 10:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-11 15:35 Introducing face in comments for various modes Heime
2022-12-11 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-12  2:24   ` Heime
2022-12-12  3:00     ` Heime
2022-12-12  8:49       ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-12  9:21         ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-12-12  9:58           ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-12 10:20             ` Heime
2022-12-12 10:50               ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-12 11:55                 ` Heime
2022-12-12 12:17                   ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-12 14:46                     ` Heime
2022-12-12 15:22                 ` Yuri Khan
2022-12-12 15:38                   ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-12 15:55                   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-12-12 16:07                   ` Christopher Dimech
2022-12-12 17:44                   ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-13  5:20                     ` Christopher Dimech
2022-12-12 15:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-12-13  7:52           ` Jean Louis
2022-12-13  8:04             ` Heime
2022-12-13  8:30               ` Heime
2022-12-13  9:35                 ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-13  9:46                   ` Heime
2022-12-13 10:05                     ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-13 10:24                       ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2022-12-13 10:40                       ` Heime
2022-12-13 10:45                         ` Thibaut Verron
2022-12-13 10:49                           ` Heime
2022-12-13 15:00                           ` Heime
2022-12-13 12:37                     ` Jean Louis
2022-12-13 14:00                       ` Heime
2022-12-13 12:36                 ` Jean Louis
2022-12-13 13:46                   ` Heime
2022-12-13 12:35               ` Jean Louis
2022-12-13  8:17             ` Christopher Dimech
2022-12-13 19:19               ` Jean Louis
2022-12-12 15:20         ` Stefan Monnier

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