Re: define multi-line comments

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:46:37 +0200 henry atting wrote:

> I have my own text mode (derived from text-mode), which defines some
> syntax highlighting. Defining keywords is no problem but as far as I see
> keywords don't work on serveral lines, e.g. this
>
>          (list "\".*\"" 0 'font-lock-variable-name-face t) 
>
> only highlights words or phrases till the line break.
> Can anyone give me a hint how to get it work multi-line.

There are some words about this in the Elisp manual, lookup
`font-lock-multiline'.  But this is incredible complicated.

Good luck ;p

But in many circumstances you can use `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' to
make some region a "string" or "comment" and then use
`font-lock-syntactic-face-function' to give it another face.

David