Re: How to add syntax highlighting inside comments for an existing major mode

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Julien Barnier <jbarnier@ens-lsh.fr> writes:

> In this mode, comments are lines that begins with one or several
> «#». What I would like to display differently those which begin with
> «#####» than those which begin with «####», etc.

The simplest way to achieve that is the following, IMO :

(add-hook 'your-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (highlight-regexp "^# .*" 'hi-blue)
            (highlight-regexp "^## .*" 'hi-red-b)))

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