Re: [el-search] How to search string excluding docstring?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Chunyang Xu <mail@xuchunyang.me> writes:

>   (and (pred stringp)
>        (guard (not (eq 'font-lock-doc-face (get-char-property (point) 
> 'face))))
>        (string "foo"))
>
> but it doesn't work for files which is not already opened, I guess it is
> because font-lock-mode is only active when I open the file.

Exactly.  It's intentional, because applying the major mode and
fontifying is by a factor n slower than el-searching with most patterns.


Michael.