Re: Context sensitive code highlighting.

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Tassilo Horn wrote:
> Robin.Fairey@gmail.com writes:
>
> > How hard would it be to implement context sensitive font lock
> > behaviour? I'm thinking of something that scans the code for an
> > argument list and then highlights subsequent occurences of the
> > argument names in a new colour.

See

  (info "(elisp) Search-based Fontification")

You can use a function instead of a regexp for searching for things to 
highlight. So it is possible to do what you want. You just need to do 
some book-keeping.

> Have a look at highlight-symbol.el [1], especially `highlight-symbol-mode'.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> __________
> [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en/HighlightSymbol
>     http://nschum.de/src/emacs/highlight-symbol/


It is very good, but would look much better if a background overlay 
could be used instead in hi-lock.