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

[Björn Lindqvist]

2015-06-04 5:42 GMT+02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
>> If you think you know what it should be changed to, can you tell me?
>
> I don't know enough of the context to be sure.

What extra context can I provide you with? If there is something in my
problem description that is unclear I can try to explain it more
precisely.

> Also, as Emacs
> maintainer I have enough experience/knowledge to fix most users's
> problems, but if I do that I'll just end up with more users with new
> problems to fix.  So instead I'm better off trying to train them so they
> can fix their problems themselves and even help me improve Emacs.
>
>> I've tried a dozen different permutations of the regexp and none of
>> them produces the desired result.
>
> What have you tried?  What/where were the undesired results?

("[a-zA-Z0-9_]\\(! \\) " (1 "_")))
("\\(!\\)[a-zA-Z0-9_]" (1 "_")))
("\\(! \\)[a-zA-Z0-9_]" (1 "_")))
("[a-zA-Z0-9_]\\(!\\) " (1 "_ ")))
("[a-zA-Z0-9_]\\(!\\) " (1 " _ ")))

And so on.  The undesired results were incorrect font-locking of
comments and regular tokens being falsely identified as comment
tokens.


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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist