Re: Fontification with a specific function

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

> joao17@mailinator.com (joao) writes:
>
>
>> I don't see where this "match data" is defined. Can anyone point me to
>> an example, in the emacs sources or in some package, of this usage of
>> fontification ?
>
> <Disclaimer: I have never done this myself>
>
> The match data is some global emacs variable/stack of the last regexp
> search results. Let us say you you wanted to fontify the word 'horse'
> then function could be like this:
>
[function using `re-search-forward'.]

> Hence, the match data is automatically set by the (re-search-forward
> ) function, you don't have to do that.
[...]

Note that you can also set the match-data explicetly with
`set-match-data'.  See (info "(elisp)Entire Match Data").


    Oliver
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