Re: Special hilighting for comments

[Heime]

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On Sunday, December 11th, 2022 at 6:54 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> 
wrote:


> On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 02:37:38AM +0000, Heime wrote:
> 
> > Would you know the problem with the following regexp
> > 
> > "^;; \\[.+\\].*$"
> > 
> > It fails to match
> > 
> > ;; [something] other things
> 
> 
> Worksforme. At least if the first semicolon is actually at the
> start of a line, that is.
> 
> Cheers
> --
> t

Yes it works.  I am trying to use subexp in highlight-regexp.
To match "^;; \\[.+\\].*$" but highlight only the "\\[.+\\]" part.