Re: Colourising a label prints it twice

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:09:28 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following function to colourise the label, but I get OFF printed 
> twice.
>
> (defun label-select (label)
>   "Color the part of LABEL after [-]."
>
>   (if (string-match "\\[\\-\\] \\(.*\\)" label)
>
>       (let ( (bt (match-string 0 label))
>              (lb (match-string 1 label)) )
>         (concat bt (propertize lb 'face '(:foreground "red"))))
>
>     label))
>
>     (insert (format " %s \n" (label-select "[-] OFF ")))
>     (insert (format " %s \n" (label-select "[-]  OFF ")))
>     (insert (format " %s \n" (label-select " [-]   OFF ")))

`bt' is the entire string passed by LABEL, but IIUC it should just be
the string "[-] ", so put that in a group:

(defun label-select (label)
  "Color the part of LABEL after [-]."

  (if (string-match "\\(\\[\\-\\] \\)\\(.*\\)" label)

      (let ( (bt (match-string 1 label))
             (lb (match-string 2 label)) )
        (concat bt (propertize lb 'face '(:foreground "red"))))

    label))

Steve Berman