Re: Font lock question

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But be aware that these approaches still won't work well if the [...]
>> thing can span multiple lines.
> Hmm, I'm afraid that is indeed possible. Perhaps I'll keep it simple and only
> font-lock the `B` part, since it can't contain any spaces and is fairly easy 
> to
> do.

Can there be [...] without any `aBc`s in them and which need to be
font-lock differently?

If not (and if it shouldn't span too many lines), then I think
a MATCH-ANCHORED that just matches on the opening "[" and then uses the
PRE-MATCH-FORM to return the position of the matching "]" should work
acceptably, as long as you use `font-lock-multiline`.


        Stefan