Re: Adjusting string font-locking to not span multiple lines

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 03:35:48 -0700 (PDT) Nordlöw wrote:

> I would like to override the behaviour for string highlighting in
> lines such as the following.
>
> 0     string  \xad6" AMGC archive data
>
> such that the the whole pattern
>                    \xad6"
> is highlighted in the font-lock-constant-face
>
> in order to prevent font-lock from highlighting the rest of the buffer
> in font-lock-string-face.
>
> How do I accomplish this?

If double quotes aren't used as string delimiters at all, just change
the syntax of the double quote character.  Otherwise you have to use
font-lock-syntactic-keywords to overwrite the syntax-table.

David