Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Heime]

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On Saturday, December 10th, 2022 at 6:12 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> 
wrote:


> On 2022-12-10, at 03:42, Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I have seen that emacs-lisp-mode allows the highlighting of some specially 
> > formatted comments using strings enclosed by single quotes 'this-thing'. 
> > This can be very useful beyond its intended use (highlighting function and 
> > variable names).
> > 
> > For instance, I can use this to highlight the first comment with a 
> > different colour from the rest of the comments.
> > 
> > But this special highlighting only works for function and variables names 
> > without spaces.
> > 
> > So I cannot do the following to get 'A Remark here' highlighted in a 
> > different colour.
> > 
> > ;; 'A Remark here'
> > ;; Some comment here
> > ;; Another comment here
> > ;; You are a hero
> > 
> > Can the use of '' be extended so I can use the highlighting more generally 
> > as described. Or perhaps have an additional highlighting for more general 
> > things, separate from function and variable names.
> 
> 
> Try M-s h C-h.

M-s does not do anything.