Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 02:42:45 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> 
> 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.

You can extend it if you want, but we won't, because that was
specifically intended to highlight symbols, not arbitrary text.