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Re: Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work?


From: Björn Lindqvist
Subject: Re: Font-lock of comments using comment tokens, does it work?
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 01:37:04 +0200

2015-06-03 21:11 GMT+02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> I have a really complicated font-locking problem I'm trying to solve
>> for a major mode. It's like I've tried everything but nothing
>> works. Here is the question I asked on Stack Overflow and got some
>> help with but it didn't go all the way:
>
> The answer there gives you the technique to use.  AFAICT you only need
> to adjust the regexp he used in exmark-syntax-propertize.
>
> You'll want to read about syntax-tables in the Elisp manual to
> understand what the "_" means in that function (for a quick
> refresher on which char means what, C-h f modify-syntax-entry RET is
> what I use, but you first need to read the Elisp reference to really
> understand how that works).

If you think you know what it should be changed to, can you tell me?
I've tried a dozen different permutations of the regexp and none of
them produces the desired result. I've also read the syntactic
font-lock and syntax table sections of the manual several times and I
still don't get it. (sorry for the double mail)


-- 
mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist



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