Re: font-lock "=

[Kevin Rodgers]

Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write a major mode for amrita.  My mode is derived from
> fundamental-mode.  
>
> One of the operators in the language is "=.  That is, quotation marks
> followed by the equals sign.  This is currently higlighted as a string
> that continues up to the next occurrence of ".  I'd like to turn off
> this behaviour and have the character pair "= not highlighted, or
> highlighted in some other face.
>
> Can someone suggest how to accomplish this?

;; make double quote the same as equals sign:
(modify-syntax-entry ?\" (char-to-string (char-syntax ?=)))

or just

;; change double quote to punctuation:
(modify-syntax-entry ?\" ".")

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA