Re: font-lock-keywords: matcher function not working

[Stefan Monnier]

> However, doesn't my matcher function search already?

No, it doesn't.

> It checks the current position first to return NIL for a failed match.

That's not a search.  It just says "doesn't match here" without saying
anything about the rest of the text until ^end, whereas a nil return
value is supposed to mean "nothing found between here and ^end" (just
as a nil return value of `re-search-forward').


        Stefan