Re: How to highlight UUID in all buffes?

[Jean Louis]

* William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> [2022-10-15 11:13]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > Now I found regular expression in library thingatpt:
> >
> > (defconst thing-at-point-uuid-regexp
> >   (rx bow
> >       (repeat 8 hex-digit) "-"
> >       (repeat 4 hex-digit) "-"
> >       (repeat 4 hex-digit) "-"
> >       (repeat 4 hex-digit) "-"
> >       (repeat 12 hex-digit)
> >       eow)
> >   "A regular expression matching a UUID.
> > See RFC 4122 for the description of the format.")
> >
> > How to invoke highlighting in every buffer on UUID?
> 
> Use font-lock-add-keywords? 

I have tried this:

(font-lock-add-keywords 'mail-mode '((thing-at-point-uuid-regexp 1 'link)))

77cf1d78-9b35-4f20-a240-9ef1552702f4

But I don't see it working.

-- 
Jean

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